it doesn't really need to be fixed, it's maybe just a little overly formal and mechanical. "there's a minimum of three such centers"īut that's really more of a style issue than a grammar issue. "there is a minimum of three such centers" so I guess what I'm trying to say is that, if anything, the correction they should be making is: In fact it even sounds awkward in that last one because you naturally want to use the contraction (?) for "there is", "there's", because it sounds wrong otherwise. Otherwise if it's "there is a minimum that must be met" then "is" sounds better, right? The "minimum" is singular so the word should be "is" not "are".įor example, if the sentence was "there are minimums that must be met" (totally different sentence, I'm just trying to find a reason to use plural of "minimum") then "are" would be appropriate in that case. I might be using the wrong terminology here but the subject (?) of the sentence is actually "minimum of three such centers", not "centers". "We now know that there are a minimum of three such centers." "Now we know that there is a minimum of three such centers." Originally posted by jonaswashe:From the intro:
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