"The antecedent, 'the Linux-based 901s,' are not selling anything. They are being sold, and they have been sold out."
FIXED: The antecedent, "the Linux-based 901s," is not selling...
Hmmm, that raises an interesting question. In French, we always learned that the object closest to the operating verb determines the conjugation of the verb. I am unsure, however, if that rule hold true in standard American or British English. "Are" would be correct according to French grammar rules, but "is" appears to be the more accepted by angloglots. Good thing I didn't major in English/Journalism.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"The antecedent, 'the Linux-based 901s,' are not selling anything. They are being sold, and they have been sold out."
FIXED: The antecedent, "the Linux-based 901s," is not selling...
Hmmm, that raises an interesting question. In French, we always learned that the object closest to the operating verb determines the conjugation of the verb. I am unsure, however, if that rule hold true in standard American or British English. "Are" would be correct according to French grammar rules, but "is" appears to be the more accepted by angloglots. Good thing I didn't major in English/Journalism.