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some English practice: Plural or Singular #1 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 11:38 am   some English practice: Plural or Singular
 

Hi,

I am not sure which of the following sentences are grammatically correct.

A: More than one person are unhappy with this.
B: More than one person is unhappy with this.

C: More than 90% of respondents are unhappy with this.
D: More than 90% of respondents is unhappy with this.

Could you help please?
Thank you.

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some English practice: Plural or Singular #2 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 11:49 am   some English practice: Plural or Singular
 

B & C are correct Kitty.

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some English practice: Plural or Singular #3 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 13:37 pm   some English practice: Plural or Singular
 

Kitosdad wrote:
B & C are correct Kitty.

Kitos.


Thank you for your help, Kitosdad.

I was thinking A and C.

To my understanding,
"more than one person" means at least two people,
so I selected A.
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some English practice: Plural or Singular #4 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 15:50 pm   some English practice: Plural or Singular
 

More than one person is unhappy with this.

Kitty, it says more than one , not many, or twenty or .............................

I know it is difficult. It is just one of those things that you learn over time.

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