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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Subject - Verb agreement

I was confronted with the following question Emotion: sad

Why would I say 'four quarts make a gallon' and 'two cups is a quart' if units of measurement take the singular form of the verb?
  

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I don't know where you got the rule about units of measurement, but I'd say both sentences could just as easily take either verb form: four quarts makes/make a gallon and two cups are/is a quart It just depends on the speaker's mindset.

— Mister Micawber

  • I don't know where you got the rule about units of measurement, but I'd say both sentences could just as easily take either verb form: four quarts makes/make a gallon and two cups are/is a quart It just depends on the speaker's mindset.
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I don't know where you got the rule about units of measurement, but I'd say both sentences could just as easily take either verb form:

four quarts makes/make a gallon and two cups are/is a quart

It just depends on the speaker's mindset.
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Two cups do not make a quart. Four cups make a quart.
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Bless you, Jhoff. You always catch what I miss utterly.
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