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18 Oct 2009 — Quantity

 How would you correct this sentence?  The number of people who are unemployed in my country is very bad. 

 

 

 

 

Click each option to read the feedback as more than one option may be correct.
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2. Change is to are. (main clause verb)

        The number of people who are unemployed
        in my country are very bad.
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