Sentence examples for plural construction from inspiring English sources

Or simply drop the parentheses and keep the plural construction.

In many cases, the simplest and best solution is to make the entire construction plural.

Recorded announcement: "who" refers to the plural "engineers" in this construction, and so requires a plural verb in the relative clause.

Recorded announcement; let's hear it from The Times's stylebook this time: [N]ote the plural verb in a construction like She is one of the people who love the Yankees.

This construction requires a plural verb in the relative clause; the "who" is plural, referring to "lawmakers," not to "one".

This construction demands a plural verb in the relative clause.

Verbal Constructions Third person plural: is rather than are, and was rather than were mustn't have + past participle, rather than can't have + past participle Past tense: come rather than came, and done rather than did.

Some tricky constructions require extra care — especially those in which the sense is plural but the grammatical structure singular, or vice versa.

As we have often noted, this construction should take a plural verb in the relative clause.

Recorded announcement: This construction should have a plural verb in the relative clause.

As careful After Deadline readers surely know, in this construction, the relative pronoun "that" is plural (agreeing with "things") so the verbs in that clause should be plural as well.