The fact you used your possessive instead of you’re in “if your talking about” pretty much discredits anything you had to say there.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago“So are all”
Eh, depends.
All precautions you can take are just visual deterrents
Is correct, but so is
All precautions you can take is just a visual deterrent.
Because it’s talking about a singular group of things, whether you use “deterrents” or “deterrent” is what determines if an “is” or “are” is used.
The singular/plural is about if your talking about a bunch of visual deterrents or everything adding up into a singular visual deterrent.
So talking about “locks” as a group gets a singular deterrent and “is”. Logically it’s that all the locks are one singular visual deterrent rather than each lock being it’s own.
Doesn’t really matter tho, English is a pretty stupid language.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah, for sure.
A phone typo immediately let’s you know that person doesn’t know grammar.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Whilst usually I would agree if you are attempting to be a pedant about grammar you should probably use correct grammar…
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not really being a pedant.
Someone corrected me, and I clarified that whether it’s singular or plural is kind of ambiguous which make both correct.
Because like I said, English is stupid. And even native speakers who follow all of its rules can’t explain them.
Think about that for a second, we all get over a decade of learning the language, and we’re mostly going off gut feeling when we use it. We may know a few rules, but not all the excepttions and rare cases the rule is wrong.
Since someone cared enough to point out the general rule, I explained the rare exception. Because I thought they’d care.
bluespin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
‘All precautions’ is plural, so you have to use ‘are’. Using ‘is’ is in no way correct there; the ‘deterrents’ bit has nothing to do with it
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
By your rational all the first person should have said:
But they didn’t, they said:
Even though they were talking about security systems which have more than one component even if only one camera.
The “visual deterrent” made the whole sentence singular. Just like when I referenced a group of locks.
Like
That collection is a lot of individual things, but the group is singular.
Theres multiple locks, but we’re talking about them as a group being a singular visual deterrent.
bluespin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t have the time to get into a grammar debate. Just letting you know why you’re being downvoted since no one else told you why your statement is incorrect
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh ok…
Thanks for replying to say you’re not replying I guess
Doesn’t seem like a good use of time tho.