Professional English: Grammar: UNIT 1
Subject Verb Agreement while using Prepositional Phrases
Grammar
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right. more than half the time. (Writer Elwyn Brooks White) ("Half" is plural because "people" is plural.)
Subject Verb Agreement while using Prepositional Phrases
Example
A
box of knives was found at the scene.
A
combination of factors was the cause of the crash.
Bernard
Shaw hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like
him. (said by Oscar Wilde)
Most
of the cake has been eaten.
Most
of the cakes have been eaten.
Some
of the worst mistakes of my life have been
haircuts. (Singer Jim Morrison)
Democracy
is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are
right. more than half the time. (Writer Elwyn Brooks White) ("Half"
is plural because "people" is plural.)
Half
of the world knows not how the other half lives.
(Poet
George Herbert) ("Half" is singular because "world" is
singular.)
Ninety
percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad
reputation.
(US
politician Henry Kissinger)
("Ninety
percent" is plural because "politicians" is plural.)
My
guess is that well over eighty percent of the human race goes
without having a single original thought. (Satirist HL Mencken)
("Eighty
percent" is singular and "human race" is singular.)
A
list of faults has been found out.
Some
of the treasure is mine.
Some
of
the coins are hers.
Placing
Prepositional Phrase is important:
One
morning, I met a stranger in my pyjamas. (incorrect)
One
morning, I, in my pyjamas, met a stranger. (correct)
Joe
fed the shark in the cage. (incorrect)
Joe
was in the cage when he fed the shark. (correct)
oe
fed the shark that was in the cage. (correct)
We
will not sell jam to anyone in glass bottles. (incorrect)
We
will not sell jam in glass bottles to anyone. (correct)
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