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Re: A compound subject joined by "and" takes a plural verb by Flavio 08/16/2006, 9:14pm PDT
Entropy Stew wrote:

That would turn it into either "...are bad foreign policy" or "...are bad foreign policies". Neither of which sound 100% right. I prefer it as is.

-/ES/-



bad foreign policy is not the subject
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