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Pjrydo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Which is the correct form?
Should it be:
'The number of wealthy households whose annual income exceed or exceeds 250,000 yuan, or about 36,000 US dollars living in urban areas, topped 1.6 million last year.'
'The number of wealthy households whose annual income exceed or exceeds 250,000 yuan, or about 36,000 US dollars living in urban areas, topped 1.6 million last year.'
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* I mean, 'It seems obvious...
- * I mean, 'It seems obvious...
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* I mean, 'It seems obvious...0
pjrydoAnd what is the rule?The rule, which in English isn't of course always adhered to, is that a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject takes a plural verb: My friend sp
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The number of wealthy households whose annual income exceed or exceeds 250,000 yuan,...
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Whose- refers to "households' income". even though income appears as singular, the relative pronoun "whose" pertained to the households which is plural. Therefore, it is "exceed".
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Whose- refers to "households' income". even though income appears as singular, the relative pronoun "whose" pertained to the households which is plural. Therefore, it is "exceed".
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pjrydo'The number of wealthy households whose annual income exceed or exceeds 250,000 yuan, or about 36,000 US dollars living in urban areas, topped 1.6 million last year.'To my American ear the only correct sounding word is "exceeds."
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HI Ray,
For pure discussion purpose, please educate me. I am interested in the analytic of this sentence.
I already expressed how I approached the sentence. " Whose income" is relative to "households" which was pluralized.
If this analytic holds true, how could the verb be singular? Maybe I approached from the wrong angle.....
For pure discussion purpose, please educate me. I am interested in the analytic of this sentence.
I already expressed how I approached the sentence. " Whose income" is relative to "households" which was pluralized.
If this analytic holds true, how could the verb be singular? Maybe I approached from the wrong angle.....
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'The number of wealthy households whose annual income exceeds 250,000 yuan, or about 36,000 US dollars living in urban areas, topped 1.6 million last year.'
Whose begins a relative clause. There is only one noun (income) before the finite verb. Income, the subject of the relative clause, is singular. No other word ca
Whose begins a relative clause. There is only one noun (income) before the finite verb. Income, the subject of the relative clause, is singular. No other word ca
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I think it has everything to do with the households
<<<Householdsis in the main clause and consequently has nothing whatsoever to do with the choice of theverb form in the relative clause>>>
Income- appeared as singular in this sentence. But I think it is misleading.
I assumed we should all agree that there are 1.6 mill
<<<Householdsis in the main clause and consequently has nothing whatsoever to do with the choice of theverb form in the relative clause>>>
Income- appeared as singular in this sentence. But I think it is misleading.
I assumed we should all agree that there are 1.6 mill
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GoodmanIncome- appeared as singular in this sentence. But I think it is misleading.Goodman, you can of course think whatever you like about the correctness or incorrectne
I assumed we should all agree that there are 1.6 million households whose income(s) exceed 250,000 Yuan or 36,000.
US.
How could this be a single income?
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