Thursday, April 28, 2011

Noun/Verb Disagreement

With the growth of online shopping over the past few years, the demand of online payment methods have visibly grew.

I have found the above sentence in an English daily.

The subject of the sentence is 'demand' which requires to be accompanied by a singular verb, but it has been matched by a plural verb which is in the present perfect tense. The 'grew' should be in the past participle.

Hence, the sentence in question should have been in either of the following versions:-

"With the growth of online shopping over the past few years, the demand of online payment methods has visibly grown." or "With the growth of online shopping over the past few years, online payment methods have visibly grown."

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