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NUMBER AGREEMENT IN SUBJECT AND RELATED NOUNNumber Agreement • November 28th, 2006
Here’s a problem that we often encounter with two nouns that are related (usually by possession) to each other: When the subject is plural, how do we refer to the second noun when it’s logically only one? In “From the Other Side of the Generation Gap,” we find sentences that use either singular or plural form for the second noun. (In the following sentences from that article, the subject has a single underline and the possessed element has double underline.)
