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| 1. “The price of the packages are affordable ....” or 2. “The prices of the packages are affordable ....” |
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Hi, and welcome to the forum!I would opt for "The prices of the packages are affordable ...." because prices (plural) agrees with are (plural).
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| Ahhh
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| Prices can't be affordable, can they Mike? Because we don't buy prices, do we? :wink: Aside from that detail, Red, your answer was a good one. :D |
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| sorry Mike, In case the prices were the same for every package, could we say: "The price of the packages is affordable"? thanks lupita Quote:
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| Hi everyone, I have some ideals on this matter 1. “The price of the packages are affordable ....” or 2. “The prices of the packages are affordable ....”[/quote] I think the first one is not right. Because, Verb " Be" depends on the word "price", so in this first one, price is singular leading to verb "Be" is singular. So I think, if the price for all the packages is the same, I should say the price of the packages is affordable... If the prices for all packages are different, I should say the prices ........... are affordable. Do you agree with me? |
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