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Which one right?
1)A number of place was visited .
2)Number of places were visited
Which one of the above is grammatically right?
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4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
If you can avoid the passive voice, that would be best. Could you say, "They visited a number of places" instead?
The passive voice means that the subject in your sentence is being acted upon, not doing the acting. "Mistakes were made" is a classic example of the passive voice, and in that case, it's used to hide blame. It's often used in government or business documents as a cover-up tool. English experts encourage people not to use the passive voice as it makes writing seem weaker.
- ♂ ♫ TimberwolfLv 71 decade ago
2)
Whoa, I just reread those. Neither is right. The correct way would be:
3)A number of places were visited.
