Subject verb agreement
Spot the error:
A lot of the student's initial successes /depends on the activities conducted/ around the programme in or outside the campus
Options:
1) a
2) b
3) c
4) No error.
I have a doubt in the second part. I think verb used should "depend" instead of "depends".The reason why I am asking this because I think the singular verb "depends" here is not in agreement with the plural subject student's initial successes.Please correct me if am wrong.
Top answer
A lot of [the student's initial successes] depend/depends on the activities conducted/ around the programme in or outside the ca mpus. I think you are right. e.
- A lot of [the student's initial successes] depend/depends on the activities conducted/ around the programme in or outside the ca mpus.
- I think you are right.
- e.
- the plural noun "successes", and hence should be the plural "depend".
- They may have made an error and meant to write singular "success", in which case singular "depends" would be right.
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A lot of [the student's initial successes] depend/depends on the activities conducted/ around the programme in or outside the campus.
I think you are right. The verb should agree with the head of the noun phrase, i.e. the plural noun "successes", and hence should be the plural "depend".
They may have made an error and meant to write singular "success", in which case s
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