FACTORS INFLUENCING THE CHOICE OF THE SINGULAR OR PLURAL FORM OF THE ENGLISH PREDICATE WHEN AGREEING IT WITH QUANTITATIVE-NOMINAL WORD COMBINATIONS

Abstract

The article analyzes the factors supposedly influencing the singular/plural agreement of the English verb-predicate with the subject expressed by the quantitative-nominal word combination. Among such factors the author identifies the factor of animateness, the precedence of predicate, the level of the remoteness of the verb-predicate from the subject. Examples from the modern English fiction serve as factual material.

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• Received: May 18, 2018.
• Published: July 1, 2018.

Keywords

• согласование
• подлежащее
• сказуемое
• количественно-именное словосочетание
• условия согласования
• agreement
• subject
• predicate
• quantitative-nominal word combination
• agreement conditions

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