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Postby a thing » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:57 am

Alientrap are a group of game developers started by Lee Vermeulen in 2001.

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Postby Ed » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:44 am

Interesting.

The 'are' usage is generally accepted in the US whereas 'is' would be preferred in the rest of the English speaking world. Which do you want to use? How about asking on alt.english.usage?
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Postby tChr » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:53 am

Unless alientrap is plural, I'd say using "are" would be direclty wrong :)
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Postby :) » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:23 pm

Ed wrote:The 'are' usage is generally accepted in the US
Living in the US, I would not say that this is true.

tChr is correct.
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Postby Ed » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:00 pm

It is not simply a singular/plural thing. Alientrap is a collective and people have different opinions on this. I would go with 'is' and it seems like everyone else wants it too.
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Postby Urmel » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:01 pm

:D hey, how about


Alientrap being a group of game developers started by Lee Vermeulen in 2001 is was?

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Postby kozak6 » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:46 pm

That doesn't quite make sense?

Alientrap "is" would be the way to go because Alientrap is a single entity.
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Postby Workaphobia » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:24 pm

Urmel aus dem Eis wrote::D hey, how about


Alientrap being a group of game developers started by Lee Vermeulen in 2001 is was?



"Being" would only be correct if there were some additional predicate to this sentence. Even then, it would still be very awkward, as a lot of passive sentences are.

For grammar debates, I just found this off google: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
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Postby jaakan » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:52 am

Alientrap is a group of game developers started by Lee Vermeulen in 2001.

"is" is correct.
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Postby Vermeulen » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:30 am

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