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Jack112 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Subject / verb with and
Are both of these grammatically correct?
1. Heavy rainfall and flooding in the region is now affecting a major city. (If using 'is' is correct, is the verb referring to the subject as one thing?)
2. Heavy rainfall and flooding in the region are now affecting a major city. (If using 'are' is correct, is the verb referring to the subject as two different things?)
1. Heavy rainfall and flooding in the region is now affecting a major city. (If using 'is' is correct, is the verb referring to the subject as one thing?)
2. Heavy rainfall and flooding in the region are now affecting a major city. (If using 'are' is correct, is the verb referring to the subject as two different things?)
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Hi Jack! I think that only the sentence no. 2 is correct.
- Hi Jack!
- I think that only the sentence no.
- 2 is correct.
- The subject at here is 2 things, rainfall and flooding.
- They are completely separate.
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Hi Jack! I think that only the sentence no. 2 is correct. The subject at here is 2 things, rainfall and flooding. They are completely separate. Instead of "and", if we use "with", the sentence no. 1 will be correct. Thanks,
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jack112Are both of these grammatically correct?Both are correct; it just depends on the writer's mindset (notional concord) as to whether the weather described is one phenomenon or two phenomena. I would probably use #1.
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