Remain vs Remains

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should this sentance use remain or remains  Leading financial analysts, Fat Prophets remains bullish on the price of gold

Radrook · Accepted Answer

The sentence is faulty and nonsensical.
The noun "analysts" is plural but the proper pronoun "Fat Prophets" to which it refers is singular.

It also lacks proper punctuation.
There should be a comma after "Prophets"

Furthermore, if "Fat Prophets" is referring to a company instead of an individual, then describing such a company as "analysts" makes it ungrammatical and confusing.

In short, the sentence lacks clarity and is self contradictory.

Miriam · Answer

I'm not sure I'm right, but I understand that sentence differently. To me, it makes sense (if you use 'remain').

"Leading financial analysts, Fat Prophets remain bullish on the price of gold."

In my opinion, the sentence means "Since they are financial analysts, Fat Prophets remain bullish on the price of gold."
In that case, no comma is needed after 'Prophets'.
Also, Fat Prophets may refer to the company as a group of people, as the group of analysts that are part of it. It would be similar to treating the noun 'family' as plural ("My family LIVE in the country.") when you refer to the members of your family, not to your family as a unit.

This is only a different point of view, and I might be wrong. But I must insist it makes sense to me.

Miriam

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