These kind of back doors
"The individuals that ran Skyline should not ever be in charge of a nursing home again, and yet here we are," said David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. He said the pandemic exposed https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/owner-n-j-nursing-home-where-bodies-found-was-once-n1185671, with a lack of resources and regulation.
"Different names, same practices," Grabowski said. "We need to ensure that there aren’t these kind of back doors, that nursing homes aren’t able to simply put a new name on the building and continue to operate as is."
(NBC News.)
Is the determiner these in grammatical agreement with the head in the NP these kind of back doors?
Is the "it" implied in the clause "as is" (as [it] is)?
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anonymous Is the determiner these in grammatical agreement with the head in the NP these kind of back doors? No. It should be these kind s .
- anonymous Is the determiner these in grammatical agreement with the head in the NP these kind of back doors?
- No.
- It should be these kind s .
- This is proof that even native speakers sometimes make mistakes.
- According to the usage note at the entry for 'kind' in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (2011), With these or those , speaking of more than one kind, use a plural construction: these kinds of changes were observed in several species.
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anonymousIs the determiner these in grammatical agreement with the head in the NP these kind of back doors?
No. It should be these kinds. This is proof that even native speakers sometimes make mistakes.
0Kind is an old irregular plural, which persists and has been used in expressions like these kind of books even by educated speakers. I suppose it is slowly becoming obsolete, though. Or perhaps I should say that more and more object to this irregular plural of kind.
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