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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Subject-Verb Agreement
All I've been prescribed are antibiotics and painkillers.
In the above sentence, is "are" or "is" needed?
In the above sentence, is "are" or "is" needed?
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'are'
- 'are'
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But I thought the subject is "I", and therefore, since "I" is singular, the singular verb "is" might be needed? How am I wrong?
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But I thought the subject is "I", and therefore, since "I" is singular, the singular verb "is" might be needed? How am I wrong?-- 'I' is not the subject; the subject is 'All', which can be singular or plural depending on its referents, which is this case are two things, antibiotics and painkillers.
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