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Hi everybody!I read this sentence today and am wondering if is is used correctly. To me ear, I think it should be are...'Does anyone feel that advances in technology IS spoiling things?"Cheers,Rob

Ruslana · Accepted Answer

IS seems correct, albeit I have no idea why.

Cool Breeze · Answer

Anonymous'Does anyone feel that advances in technology IS spoiling things?"

You are right. Is is wrong because the key word is advances, not technology.

CB

Ruslana · Answer

This was my first thought, too, but then I googled a bit, and found scores of examples where they write it as if the word 'advances' was singular.

Edit:

I've just googled again and have realized that I overlooked something: in all examples I came across they talked about journals, e.g. "Advances in Geosciences IS an international, interdisciplinary journal". Maybe in Anon's example the matter is about a journal too, and that's why IS was used.

Anonymous · Answer

Thanks for all your replies so far.

To clarify, the sentence was extracted from a letter bemoaning the fact that computer games have become too complex. It does not refer to any form of scholarly journal.

Regards,

Rob

Ruslana · Answer

Having a letter about computer games, are you sure there has been no journals such as "Advances in technology" mentioned?

Anyway, in that case I agree with Cool Breeze.

Philip · Answer

RuslanaHaving a letter about computer games, are you sure there has been no journals such as "Advances in technology" mentioned?

Anyway, in that case I agree with Cool Breeze.

Cool Breeze, Ruslana and I all agree. Plural.

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