VKat wrote:
Hello,
just want to confirm, "one of a number of industrialized nations" will take singular verb or plural verb?
And plz also suggest "one of the number of industrialized nations" will take singular verb or plural verb?
A number of nations = some nations
The number of nations = a number indicating how many nations (a quantity), e.g., 4,5 etc.
One of THE number of nations is wrong.
One of A number of nations is correct.
The latter refers to one single nation ("one")
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