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re: People be hypnotizin women on Grambling’s campus
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:01 pm to slinger1317
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:01 pm to slinger1317
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All you morons saying “was” is incorrect must have gone to public school. The noun (subject) is “group”- so the verb is “was”
“Students”-even though it is next to the verb- is the object of a preposition and NOT the noun (subject).
Do you guys even subject-verb agreement bro??
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Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:02 pm to slinger1317
What is you talkin about
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:03 pm to Finchboyz
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quote: a group of female students was approached
Definitely written by a Grambling student.
Better passive voice than active racism.
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:09 pm to slinger1317
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All you morons saying “was” is incorrect must have gone to public school. The noun (subject) is “group”- so the verb is “was”
Dang baw, and all this time I thought dat gwoup of ducks was flyin.
It being a group of students, makes it were.
Like a group of birds were flying.
The group was late.
This post was edited on 9/20/23 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:17 pm to dgnx6
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It being a group of students, makes it were.
Like a group of birds were flying.
The group was late.
So, you are saying that "group of" is an adjective? We have reached the American language
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:23 pm to Jester
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So, you are saying that "group of" is an adjective? We have reached the American language
quote:
a group of female students
It depends if the group is a single entity or not. The person expressing this made a point to acknowledge it’s a group of plural students. The correct term here is were.
Arguing otherwise is dumb as frick.
I would like to acknowledge none of my public schooling was done in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 9/20/23 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 9/20/23 at 10:33 pm to Finchboyz
That’s actually correct grammar. “Group” is the noun. And it is singular.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:29 am to Finchboyz
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Definitely written by a Grambling student.
It's correct grammar.
"A group ________ was approached".
The subject is the group, not the female students.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:33 am to dgnx6
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It depends if the group is a single entity or not.
No, there is a SINGLE group of multiple students. If he was talking about multiple groups of students, then you'd be right. But the article says "a group of female students".
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:36 am to dgnx6
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I thought dat gwoup of ducks was flyin.
"That group of ducks was flying" is grammatically correct.
You wouldn't say "That group were flying", so you shouldn't say "That group of ducks were flying".
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 12:40 am
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:51 am to LordSaintly
Agreed.
This is fairly simple:
The words "of female students" is a prepositional phrase made up of the preposition (of), the object (students) and the modifier (females). Subject verb agreement follows the subject not the object. The subject in this case is "group" which is singular so you use the singular verb "was". The prepositional phrase can be removed "a group was approached by two male subjects" which makes it more clear that "was" is correct.
This is fairly simple:
quote:
a group of female students was approached by two male subjects
The words "of female students" is a prepositional phrase made up of the preposition (of), the object (students) and the modifier (females). Subject verb agreement follows the subject not the object. The subject in this case is "group" which is singular so you use the singular verb "was". The prepositional phrase can be removed "a group was approached by two male subjects" which makes it more clear that "was" is correct.
This post was edited on 9/21/23 at 1:13 am
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:52 am to LordSaintly
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It's correct grammar. "A group ________ was approached". The subject is the group, not the female students.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:56 am to dgnx6
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Like a group of birds were flying.
A collective of birds would be a flock (there are other species specific terms as well)
You wouldn't say "a flock of geese were flying"
You are are losing this, badly.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:57 am to Obtuse1
Two male subjects approached a group of female students
FIFY
Eliminates the passive was / were
Tightens up message to convey
FIFY
Eliminates the passive was / were
Tightens up message to convey
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:57 am to fr33manator
Probably 
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:59 am to Cheese Grits
So, 2 brothers were Hypnotoading some sistah's and po po shows up. My question is if they were good enough to mind control the women, why could they not mind control the po po?
Posted on 9/21/23 at 12:59 am to LordSaintly
No, I was saying the poster you were replying to played himself.
Look, there are plenty of examples of awful journalism grammatically, but the piece he chose showed his own ignorance.
Look, there are plenty of examples of awful journalism grammatically, but the piece he chose showed his own ignorance.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:08 am to fr33manator
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You wouldn't say "a flock of geese were flying"
You are are losing this, badly.
If the collective noun refers to the group as a unit, then it takes a singular verb. If it refers to the individuals in the group or the parts that make up the group, then the verb should be plural.
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:11 am to slinger1317
quote:In subject/verb agreement, always take out the prepositional phrases first.
Do you guys even subject-verb agreement bro??
Posted on 9/21/23 at 1:14 am to Cheese Grits
quote:
Eliminates the passive was / were
Agreed the use of passive voice is why the original poster got confused and confusion is the main reaosn to avoid passive voice.
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