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Re: a subject-verb-agreement question
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DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:32:48 -0500
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At 04:39 PM 6/16/2008, Paul E. Doniger wrote:
>And yet, all through elementary school, we were hammered with 
>reminders that "two plus two are (not is) four."

DD: I know the catechism well, but I know it in the singular verb. It 
is drilled into my mind, but with the singular "is". Question; What 
is three plus nine? Response; Three plus nine is twelve. Of course I 
learned it in 1936. Probably a shift of grammatical agreement over time. 

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