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[Concord #2]
FOCUS: Concord between Subject and Verb
Use the corpus to solve the following exercises.

(Remember that you can sort the search result by "right word"; this makes it easier to browse through the hits.)

1) Search for "a number of" in the corpus; does the expression typically require singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural

2) Search for "none of them" in the corpus; has the expression been used with singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural

3) Search for "none of us" in the corpus; has the expression been used with singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural

4) Search for "none is", "none was", "none are" and "none were"; based on the corpus search results would you say that "none" typically requires singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
either (equal amount of singular and plural)

5) Search for the expression "every child" in the corpus; has it been used with singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
there are no occurrences of "every child" in the corpus

6) Search for the expression "all children" in the corpus; has it been used with singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural

7) Search for the expression "few of us" in the corpus; has it been used with singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural

8) Search for "few is", "few was", and "few has"; based on the corpus search results would you say that "few" typically requires singular or plural concord?
singular
plural
both singular and plural


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