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Politics - singular / plural ?

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Politics - singular / plural ?

by anusuthakaran Wed May 20, 2009 8:25 am

What is GMAT's take on a sentence like the one below where the term 'politics' refers to not the subject but the games played by people ?

Politics of the situation was/were complicated.
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Re: Politics - singular / plural ?

by esledge Wed May 27, 2009 5:06 pm

I don't know that the GMAT has a unique opinion on the matter. The non-GMAT consensus seems to be that politics can be either singular or plural, depending on context.
anusuthakaran Wrote:What is GMAT's take on a sentence like the one below where the term 'politics' refers to not the subject but the games played by people ?

Politics of the situation was/were complicated.

In this context, it is plural: The politics ... were complicated.

I found this interesting:
http://theslot.blogspot.com/2007/11/lot ... fused.html
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