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My daughter (13) and a friend are having a debate involving sentence construction. My daughter wrote this sentence: Years of Writing with Skill have made it easy.

 

Her friend says that she should use "has" and not "have."

 

I told my daughter she is correct - the simple subject and verb agree in her sentence; also, the object of a preposition is not what is used for verb agreement. I will note, not that it matters, that I don't know if her friend knows that "Writing with Skill" is the title of a book.

 

Please help by weighing in! Thanks in advance!

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I'd ask the girls to think of another sentence with "years" as the subject.

 

Years were passing...

 

The years have really changed you...

 

(To prove your daughter right, of course.)

 

I often get this wrong when speaking, but when writing we have time to think it through!

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My daughter (13) and a friend are having a debate involving sentence construction. My daughter wrote this sentence: Years of Writing with Skill have made it easy.

 

Her friend says that she should use "has" and not "have."

 

I told my daughter she is correct - the simple subject and verb agree in her sentence; also, the object of a preposition is not what is used for verb agreement. I will note, not that it matters, that I don't know if her friend knows that "Writing with Skill" is the title of a book.

 

Please help by weighing in! Thanks in advance!

 

This is where the Easy Grammar method comes in handy: cross out the prepositional phrase "of Writing With Skills" and you have the subject and verb: Years have made it easy. :D

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