number agreement

number agreement
noun
agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)
Hypernyms: ↑agreement, ↑concord

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noun
: grammatical concord in form (as singular, dual, or plural) of adjective with noun, finite verb with subject, or pronoun with antecedent

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