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Question 44

The café advertises fish and chips without saying whether readers should construe the words as one dish or as two coordinated components. Which sentences are standard? Select all that apply.

  1. Fish and chips be today's special.
  2. Fish and chips is today's special.Correct answer
  3. Fish and chips being today's special.
  4. Fish and chips are today's special.Correct answer

Explanation

Both singular is for the single-dish reading and plural are for the coordinated-components reading are standard. Bare be and the non-finite being cannot serve as the finite simple-present verb in this declarative sentence, so they are not competing agreement variants.

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