What are the problems between the grammatical principle and the other two principles?
【正确答案】:Problems arise through occasional conflict between the grammatical principle and the other two principles. The notional principle, as the name suggests, is concerned with the subject-verb concord on the semantic basis, i.e. according to the notion of number rather than the physical presence of the grammatical marker of that notion. Such a concord is especially common between a verb and its subject that contains a collective noun. Whether plural or singular depends to a large extent on the speaker’s understanding of what such a noun refers to, e.g., to a group of people as a whole or as individuals.
What are the problems between the grammatical principle and the
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