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Subject:Re: IS or ARE From:kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com> To:salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com Date:Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:01:03 -0700
John said
"Two months of free service is given to a current customer
or
Two months of free service are given to a current customer"
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Definitely "are". Take out the prepositional phrase and read it. But
yeah--would read better w/o the passive voice.
c
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