Monday, August 4, 2008

Subject–Verb Agreement

‘But losses in motor insurance, which accounts for about a third of the market here ...’ (Today, 1 August 2008).

Make it losses ... which account for, since the relative pronoun which has the plural head noun losses as its antecedent.

[Edit: My mistake, owing to a misreading – the antecedent of which is motor insurance, so the singular verb accounts is correct.]

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