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Nam Luong Posted 5 years ago
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Which sentence is correct?

More than 6 million tonnes of food is...

or more than 6 million tonnes of food are

  

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It's "are". I suppose there is a context in which one would be tempted to construe those tonnes as a single unit, but ordinarily, they are plural.

  • It's "are".
  • I suppose there is a context in which one would be tempted to construe those tonnes as a single unit, but ordinarily, they are plural.
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It's "are". I suppose there is a context in which one would be tempted to construe those tonnes as a single unit, but ordinarily, they are plural.

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