renjana wrote:
A) Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities from which stems success in college applications
B) success in college applications stems.
I had a doubt regarding subject verb agreement .
Here the students are encouraged to pursue activities which is plural -> Why are we using singular verb stems with this sentence ?
One way to figure something like this out is to change the part of the sentence from a modifier, into an independent clause.
For example:
These are the candies
which I bought = I bought the candies
We visited the town
in which I was born = I was born in this town
Students are encouraged to pursue activities
from which stems success = Success stems from these activities
It sounds really awkward to use the singular, but it's correct because you aren't saying that the
activities stem. You're saying that
success stems
from the activities. In that sentence, 'success' is the subject, and success is singular, so 'stems' is the right verb.
You can tell that 'activities' isn't the subject because there's a 'from' in front of the word 'which', telling you that 'from activities' should be part of the sentence. 'From activities' is a prepositional phrase, so it can't be the subject. 'Success' is the only thing that can be the subject here.
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