you are correct - speaking as someone with an honours degree (partially) in Linguistics whose supervisor got his PhD with Chomsky as supervisorCaptain wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:50 pm(Apologies everyone for still continuing with this... )EvilDragon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:50 am Actually... isn't it "two filter banks offer xyz", and if it's singular it's the other way around, "the filter bank offers xyz"? I think that's correct.
English is weird.
EDIT: looks like I missed the grammar school posts. But yes, using "offers" is wrong in this context, should be fixed The link there referring to "each" does not relate to this situation here.
I most respectfully disagree. My reasoning goes as follows:
Each of the two Filter Banks offers 20 frequency bands.
Who is offering here? What is the subject of the sentence? It’s ”each” (and not ”filter banks”), which refers to a single entity in a group of many, thus being grammatically singular. Changing the sentence a little makes it clearer:
There are two filter banks. Each offers 20 frequency bands.
The link that I copy&pasted is very much about this exact situation. An example from that page:
Each of the golfers wants to win the PGA.
Let’s then morph it into our sentence:
Each of the golfers wants to win the PGA.
Each of the two golfers wants to win the PGA.
Each of the two filter banks wants to win the PGA.
Each of the two filter banks offers 20 frequency bands.
Does it make sense?
Clause replacement is a handy technique
Each of the two Filter Banks offers 20 frequency bands.
(clarify)
Each, of the two Filter Banks, offers 20 frequency bands
(substitute/remove )
Each offers 20 frequency bands.