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Quantifiers — Subject-verb agreement when subject quantifiers are present
The verb agrees with the noun[edit | edit source]
With some quantifiers, the verb agrees not with the quantifier but with the noun:
- Beaucoup de professeurs sont surmenés
Many teachers are overworked
Similar quantifiers are:
- bien des,
- nombre de,
- pas mal de,
- peu de,
- la plupart de,
- quantité de,
- trop de
The verb agrees with the noun or with the quantifier[edit | edit source]
With other quantifiers, however, the verb may agree with the noun or with the quantifier:
- La majorité de nos étudiants ont/a moins de quarante ans
The majority of our students are under forty
- Une bonne partie de ses clients viennent/vient de l'étranger
A good portion of his customers come from abroad
Similar quantifiers are:
- une minorité de,
- le reste de,
- la moitié de,
- un tiers de,
and numeral nouns like
- une dizaine de,
- une vingtaine, etc.
Other Chapters[edit | edit source]
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Agreement with a preceding direct object pronoun when the participle is followed by infinitives
- "se faire" and "se laisser"
- Subject–Verb Agreement
- Easy way of generating the Future and Conditional
- Polite Form
- Subject verb agreement — Verb agreement with collective noun subjects
- Subject verb agreement — Verb agreement with fractions
- Number differences between French and English nouns
- Years
- Polite Form
- Agreement of past participles with preceding direct objects in questions
- Plurals of nouns ending in –al
- encore VS toujours
- Gender of Nouns Names of ships and restaurants
- Use of y