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Jack112 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Subject and Verb

1. LAPD is used across the D channel to ensure that control and signaling information is received and flows properly. (Is 'is' the subject for the singular adjective 'control and signaling information'?)

2. LAPD is used across the D channel to ensure that control and signaling information are received and flows properly. (Is this incorrect?)

3. LAPD is used across the D channel to ensure that control information and signaling information are received and flows properly. (This is correct right?)

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The words 'control and signalling information' is a single unit, as far as I am concerned. The verb 'is' refers back to the words 'control and signalling information'. The word 'information is always singular.

— Rotter

  • The words 'control and signalling information' is a single unit, as far as I am concerned.
  • The verb 'is' refers back to the words 'control and signalling information'.
  • The word 'information is always singular.
  • We don't write 'informations'.
  • I wouldn't say a qualified English teacher would discard your second sentence.
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The words 'control and signalling information' is a single unit, as far as I am concerned.

The verb 'is' refers back to the words 'control and signalling information'.

The word 'information is always singular. We don't write 'informations'.

I wouldn't say a qualified English teacher would discard your second sentence. If you are ready to accept it as a plural en
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No.1 is correct, as in Rotter's suggestion.

No.2 is incorrect.

'Are' in no.3 would be correct because control and signalling are posed as two separate types of information, but ' flows' must be changed to the plural form 'flow.'
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On a totally different sentence, what about this one?

1. You have to understand that we are not a mom and pop operation and that our ebay sales and shipping process is largely automated. (Does 'is' refer to 'sales and shipping' here? 'is' does not refer to 'that' right?)

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is refers to sales-and-shipping process [my hyphenation].
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1. When newly discovered neighbors are learned, the address and interface of the neighbor are recorded. (Is this sentence correct with 'are'? Are 'address' & 'interface' the subject for 'are' ?)

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I'd say the sentence is correct, though I don't know what the neighbor's interface means.
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