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Edamame Posted 18 years ago
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treat this as singular or plural?
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00 Could you tell me which is correct? 02 br
00 "More than 90% of the drugs are..... " or "More than 90% of the drugs is...." 02 br
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00 Could you tell me which is correct? 02 br
00 "More than 90% of the drugs are..... " or "More than 90% of the drugs is...." 02 br
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0 are: think 01 b 00 proximity 02 b 00 to 01 i 00 drugs 02 i 0-
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0 are: think 01 b 00 proximity 02 b 00 to 01 i 00 drugs 02 i 0-
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01 cite 10 Marius Hancu 12 cite 10 are: think 11 b 10 proximity 12 b 10 to 11 i 10 drugs 12 i 12 blockquote10 Is that really a good answer? Shouldn't we teach people to think about the subject of the sentence when deciding on verb agreement? The subject of a sentence is never in a prepositional phrase
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00 I think it should be "are" because it agrees with "drugs". It's not true "more" is plural... if you had water ins
01 cite 10 ytsirk 12 cite 10 The subject of a sentence is never in a prepositional phrase like that. More is the subject, and more is plural. You always say "more are," not "more is." 12 blockquote10 Hi, 02 br
00 I think it should be "are" because it agrees with "drugs". It's not true "more" is plural... if you had water ins
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01 cite 10 Edamame 12 cite 10 Hello all, 12 br
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10 Could you tell me which is correct? 12 br
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10 ""More than 90% of the drugs are.. " or "More than 90% of the drugs is" or "More than 90% of the drugs is.." 12 br
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01 cite 10 Kooyeen 12 cite 10 It's not true "more" is plural... if you had water instead of drugs, you would say that more than 50% of the water 11 i 11 b 10 is 12 b 12 i 10 polluted, wouldn't you? Water is uncountable, so you use a singular verb... 15 0 12 blockquote10 I apologize for not qualifying my
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01 cite 10 ytsirk 12 cite 12 br
11 blockquote11 cite 20 Kooyeen 22 cite 20 It's not true "more" is plural... if you had water instead of drugs, you would say that more than 50% of the water 21 i 21 b 20 is 22 b 22 i 20 polluted, wouldn't you? Water is uncountable, so you use a singul
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0 Thank you all. I thought I might have to consider "more than 90% of the drugs" as one group. But in this case, it seems I can simply consider that the number of drugs mentioned here is more than 1; therefore, I should use "are." 0-
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01 cite 10 Edamame 12 cite 10 Thank you all. I thought I might have to consider "more than 90% of the drugs" as one group. But in this case, it seems I can simply consider that the number of drugs mentioned here is more than 1; therefore, I should use "are." 12 blockquote10 Yes. That way you'll be more correct more often than if you
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0 Both singular and plural suit me just fine: 01 i 00 More than 90 percent of the drugs is/are wasted... 02 i 02 br
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 11 blockquote11 cite 20 Edamame 22 cite 20 Thank you all. I thought I might have to consider "more than 90% of the drugs" as one group. But in this case, it seems I can simply consider that the number of drugs mentioned here is more than 1; therefore, I should use "are." 22 bloc
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