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Subject verb agreement? #1 (permalink) Thu Dec 07, 2006 17:31 pm   Subject verb agreement?
 

Hi, I've just come across a website that looks quite professional but the following sentence souds odd to me. Something seems to be wrong with subject/verb agreement:

Online profiles and social networking engages your audience, creating the active ingredients in any online community.

What do you think?
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Subject verb agreement? #2 (permalink) Thu Dec 07, 2006 17:49 pm   Subject verb agreement?
 

Hi Torsten

I agree. I'd use engage in that sentence.

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Subject verb agreement? #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:46 am   Subject verb agreement?
 

Hi,

I would, as they say, feel more comfortable with the plural 'engage' I imagine that the writer has lumped together 'profiles and social networking' as one idea, whatever that is they mean/it means!

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