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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Singular or plural

Hello,
in sentence: "One of the most important part of FTE is DSS. "
The word "part" should be in plural or singular version?
I ask because MS Word says that it should be plural.
  

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I don't know what the sentence means, but Word is right - it's part s

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I don't know what the sentence means, but Word is right - it's parts
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Thanks:) Abbreviations are cryptic for me too Emotion: stick out tongue
Maybe it is because of differences between my language and English but
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There are several parts. The writer is taking about one these parts.
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Thanks a lot. have a nice day Emotion: smile
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I have another sentence: "One of the major limitation is the transmission ... ". Here again MS Word says that "limitations" is correct form. It is totally unintuitive for me.
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AnonymousHere again MS Word says that "limitations" is correct form.
MS Word is correct.

One (of the [several] major limitations) is the transmission...
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Ok. So I think that word "major" is here in not correct position. Because it should refer to only one limitation. Maybe something like this could be better: Major of the limitations is the transmission... ? The word "one" could be ignored. Or this is better: Major one of the limitations is the transmission... ?
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Anonymous it should refer to only one limitation.
Yours are not possible. In that case:

The major limitation is the transmission...
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