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To: snowrip
Your literature and signs in the entrance lobby look like fascist propaganda and is extremely offensive

This guy is supposed to be teaching English, and he doesn't know about agreement between subject and verb? The subject is plural; the verb should be are

29 posted on 11/19/2005 9:15:55 AM PST by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: JoeFromSidney

Not necessarily. Literature would call for is. Literature and signs taken as ONE entity, i.e. "your propaganda" would also require is.
This is an argument that even English teachers have. In this case, I would call either is or are correct.

vaudine (former English teacher)


35 posted on 11/19/2005 9:43:03 AM PST by vaudine
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