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Seagull Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Third-person present singular

Hello everyone. I have a question.

Regarding the passage below, I don't understand why the form "flows" is used in the second sentence. I think that the subject of the sentence is "The blood vessels," which means "flow" has to be used here. What do you think? --

The opah’s wonderful nets are in its gills, and that makes all the difference. The blood vessels carrying warm blood from heart to gills flows next to those carrying cold blood from the gills to the rest of the body, warming them up. So, while a tuna or shark might isolate its warm muscles from the rest of its cold body, the opah flips this arrangement. It isolates the cold bits—the gills—from everything else.

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/05/14/meet-the-comical-opah-the-only-truly-warm-blooded-fish/

  

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seagull I think that the subject of the sentence is "The blood vessels," which means "flow" has to be used here. What do you think? I think so, too.

  • seagull I think that the subject of the sentence is "The blood vessels," which means "flow" has to be used here.
  • What do you think?
  • I think so, too.
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seagull I think that the subject of the sentence is "The blood vessels," which means "flow" has to be used here. What do you think?

I think so, too.

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The verb "flow" is wrong there altogether. It's poor proofreading, in my opinion.

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