Jeff Glauner
Associate Professor of English
Park
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Parkville MO 64152
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-----Original Message-----We have a disagreement about subject/verb agreement, and I would like the expert opinions of the members of this list. The sentence generating the disagreement reads,
From: Carolyn Kinslow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:23 AM
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Subject: Help with verbal as subject
"Learning and assimilating new information is always easier when the information is presented in a familiar pattern."One camp claims the singular verb, is, is correct; the other camp maintains that the verb should be plural. How can I explain this construction?
Carolyn