All for One: Subject-Verb Agreement for Compounds and Collective
(Nouns joined by the disjunctive "nor" act independently and warrant a singular verb.) —Neither the jurors nor the judge seems sympathetic to our argument. (
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Judges and Discrimination: Assessing the Theory and Practice of
the factors that must be considered when passing sentence designate the We surveyed a group of Michigan judges from six counties to determine.
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The panel of judges (in the Court of Appeals and also denoting the Collective nouns require singular verbs when the group is functioning as a unit.
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Even though collective nouns refer to multiple individuals they still usually function as singular nouns in a sentence. They are referring to one thing:
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Language training on the vocabulary of judicial cooperation in
8 nov. 2010 b) terms whose meaning in legal contexts differs from the one they ... d) use of collective noun + singular or plural verb: singular if the ...
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Judge Robert Beach of the Appellate Court and included certain law clerks and (1) Collective Nouns require a singular verb when the group is ...
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In an active sentence the subject of the sentence does the action
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A Phrase is a group of words which neither has a finite verb nor makes any sense by itself. Depending on its place in the sentence
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Use a comma between two adjectives that modify a noun (the confident sentences
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