Forum: English Questions
May 22nd, 2012, 04:36 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,426 Re: how to use the Internet
"you really should publish a book eg with a collection of answers in this forum.
it's no jest."
I agree that some of the posts here are interesting and helpful. But I wonder if they are for second...
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Forum: English Questions
May 22nd, 2012, 04:07 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 2,962 Re: Emerson
The custom was to present.
Therefore the subject of the sentence is 'custom', and this is singular hence the 'was' and not 'were'.
If 'he' was the subject, I suspect the sentence would read 'as was...
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