From a book I read:
"Their sense of space and time are completely messed up."
What else is messed up in this sentence?
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Their sense of space and time is messed up.
Jeffrey Morris
Their sense ... is
"Sense" is singular.
Wow. You guys should run this blog!
P.S. Sorry the poll doesn't seem to be working.
Unless you're Einstein, space and time are very different things. So I would correct the sentence this way: "Their senses of space and time are completely messed up."
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