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Vsuresh Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

subject verb agreement

Hi

It is one of the oldest countries in the world.

Its customs,values and tradition makes it a unique country as well.

I think makes is fine as plural subject are related to one entity,the country.

Please give your comments.
  

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That's incorrect. You have a plural subject, as you said. "

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That's incorrect. You have a plural subject, as you said. Therefore, use "make."
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Its customs, values and tradition make....
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Thank you, teechr..

I have a question on that

In subject verb agreement we learn that even though the subject is plural it takes a singular verb if the plural subject is related to one person.

His courage and determination was praised.

Please give your comments on this.
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vsureshIn subject verb agreement, we learn that even though the subject is plural, it takes a singular verb if the plural subject is related to one person.
Where did you find that?
vsureshHis courage and determination was praised.
I consider "was" incorrect in that sentence and would use "were" instead.
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teechrWhere did you find that?
I think it was one of the pointers under Subject Verb Agreement in one of the most popular grammar books which I used to learn grammar many years ago. I do not possess it now.
I do know the name of the book but will check with it once again before I give the name.

But in all the sources I visited to see if there is a
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vsureshIn subject verb agreement we learn that even though the subject is plural it takes a singular verb if the plural subject is related to one person.
His courage and determination was praised.
I wouldn't have thought that having a relationship to one person would make a difference.

I think, instead, that it's a matter of two re
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Thank you for sharing your views, CJ.
CalifJimI think, instead, that it's a matter of two related nouns that can be thought of as a unit. "courage and determination" sounds like such a combination to me so the singular verb (was) doesn't really bother me.
Actually this I was very much aware.

Now that everyone of you haven't learnt or come across somet
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We have all come across this sort of thing. Its simply that teechr does not think that 'courage and determination' are close enough to fall into the 'combination' category; CJ does. I veer towards teeechr's thinking,but I would not be terribly upset by a singular verb. There are no hard and fast rules here..

You will note that I have 'verified' both teechr's and CJ's responses. They are b
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