Saturday, January 26, 2019

grammaticality - Analysing the "kind(s) of problem(s) are [ones]/[to be]" construction



A. These kinds of problem are to be avoided.


B. These kind of problems are to be avoided.




Are both A and B grammatical? If not, why not? If so, after having noticed the parallelism between A and C, and between B and D, could we say that C and D are "standard" English, too?



C. These kinds of problem are ones to avoid.


D. These kind of problems are ones to avoid.





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