From a book I recently finished:
"The danger of this diagnosis and treatment are twofold."
The danger of subject-verb misagreement are twofold: Readers wonder how that sentence made it into print, and the writer looks ignorant.
"Danger"=Singular
"Are"=Plural
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Friday, April 23, 2010
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