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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Subject–Verb Agreement: ‘Is’ or ‘Are’?
The strength and vitality that XYZ Company enjoys today is due in no small part to the many important contributions made by its team members.
The subject ‘strength and vitality’ is, of course, plural, but to my ears, ‘is’ sounds better. Maybe this is one of those cases where the two nouns are considered a singular entity.
Which is grammatically correct—‘is’ or ‘are’?
Thank you.
The subject ‘strength and vitality’ is, of course, plural, but to my ears, ‘is’ sounds better. Maybe this is one of those cases where the two nouns are considered a singular entity.
Which is grammatically correct—‘is’ or ‘are’?
Thank you.
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victo The subject ‘strength and vitality’ is, of course, plural, but to my ears, ‘is’ sounds better. Maybe this is one of those cases where the two nouns are considered a singular entity. Which is grammatically correct—‘is’ or ‘are’?
- victo The subject ‘strength and vitality’ is, of course, plural, but to my ears, ‘is’ sounds better.
- Maybe this is one of those cases where the two nouns are considered a singular entity.
- Which is grammatically correct—‘is’ or ‘are’?
- Therefore both are correct.
- htm ) that it is a notional call, so there is no point in posting further inquiries on the same question.
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victoThe subject ‘strength and vitality’ is, of course, plural, but to my ears, ‘is’ sounds better. Maybe this is one of those cases where the two nouns are considered a singular entity. Which is grammatically correct—‘is’ or ‘are’?Therefore both are correct. You have already said yourself in another post on the same topic (
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I didn't think it did had anything to do with the pluperfect participles, either. So, quite frankly, I'm unsure of that notion.
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