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AMA Manual of Style (10th ed.) : A Guide for Authors and Editors

AMA Manual of Style Committee

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Mar 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780195176339
Published to AMA Manual of Style:
Apr 2009
DOI:
10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001
© American Medical Association
Contents

Subject-Complement Agreement

Chapter:
Grammar
Author(s):

Stacy Christiansen

7.1.3 Subject-Complement Agreement

Subjects and complements should agree in number.

The child can take off his own shoes.

We asked trial participants to return their pill dispensers.

However, when the complement is shared by all constituents of the plural subject, it remains singular.

The authors were asked to revise their paper.

All study sites obtained approval from their institutional review board.

Investigators inserted a catheter into the study participants' pulmonary artery.