Danisha1234 wrote:
Why is "declining values for farm.." not considered as verbing phrase acting as a subject of the sentence and hence needs a singular verb?
For me, if I ask what is going many lenders to tighten or deny credit this spring? I get the answer declining values. Values on its own will not force, but fact the values are declining is going to act as force.
Please help me withthis.
@gmatninja
ThankYou
Hi Danisha1234,
To understand the reason we look at decliningvalues as a noun phrase rather than a gerund phrase, we have to look at the meaning ofdeclining .
Althoughdecline can be a noun,declining is a form of theverb decline . As averb:
1. Decline can mean {to become smaller or less in some way}. For example," Thepopulation ofJapan declined".
When used like this,decline doesn't take anobject. That is, we can't say something like" X declined the population ofJapan " to mean "X reduced the population ofJapan".
2. Decline can be used with
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