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    Hi teachers

    The following two sentences:

    (1) The vertical position of a and b are....
    (2) The vertical positions of a and b are...

    Which one is right?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Default Re: position

    Of the two, only #2 is possible.

    Could you give us the whole sentence? What you are planning to say might be unnatural.
    Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.


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    Default Re: position

    Quote Originally Posted by 5jj View Post
    Of the two, only #2 is possible.

    Could you give us the whole sentence? What you are planning to say might be unnatural.
    The whole sentence is "The vertical positions of the grid points on each axis are determined via the monitoring function".

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