What's the difference between "exist" and "exists" in this sentence? Throughout the United States a wide variety of wetlands exist, ranging from permafrost wetlands in Alaska to tropical rain forests

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What's the difference between "exist" and "exists" in this sentence? Throughout the United States a wide variety of wetlands exist, ranging from permafrost wetlands in Alaska to tropical rain forests in Hawaii

27 dec. 2015 05:20

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Someone asked a similar question recently regarding "a lot of them are..." Here is a link: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/44942/a-variety-of-x-is-vs-a-variety-of-x-are "Both sentences are grammatical." You could call it something of an anomaly of English grammar (but then, what isn't? :)).

27 december 2015

plural = exist singular = exists

27 december 2015

exists = singular unit of meaning, either one person or one group of things (eg this disease only exists in Africa) exist = plural unit, either people or things eg 'large groups of people exist in harmony' or 'a wide variety of wetlands exist'

27 december 2015

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