if only a sufficiently large number

[blizzy]

Can I say this?
Every party can come into power, if only a sufficiently large number of people supports it.

 

[Yoyo2012]

This sentence reads natural to me. But i think " a large number of people" means more than one people, so the following verb should be "support".
( I am a student, not a teacher. )

 

[emsr2d2]

You could simplify it by using simply "enough" instead of "a sufficiently large number of". You would then use "people support it".

 

[emsr2d2]

This sentence [STRIKE]reads[/STRIKE] seems/sounds natural to me (no full stop here) but I think "a large number of people" means more than one [STRIKE]people[/STRIKE] person, so the following verb should be "support".

(I am a student, not a teacher.)

Note my corrections above.

 

[Rover_KE]

Can I say this?
Every party can come into power, if only a sufficiently large number of people supports it.

I'd say

'Any party can come into power if a majority of people vote for it'. 'Supporting' a party is not the same as voting for it.

'Every party can't come into power—not at the same time, anyway.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

In American English, "supports" would be right, and "support" would be wrong. We usually treat groups as singular nouns: the army is, Parliament is, U2 is.

 

[GoesStation]

This American would write if a sufficiently large number of people support it.