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In response to "is, isn't it? there is a number. take out the clauses and prepositional phrases and that's your answer. -- nm" by amanda

But isn't the object in question the "people". "There is people" isn't right. I thought "a number of" was just another modifier -- nm

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jun 19 '15, 05:40

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the object is "number". "of people" is a descriptor. -- nm - amanda Jun 19, 05:45 5
- t'other way around. - Reagen Jun 19, 06:39 4
  - Mara, where are you?! -- nm - con_carne Jun 19, 06:50 3
    - FB. Sadly, we seem to have lost another wonderful person. -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 06:51 2
      - I was being... what's that thing where you're talking about a thing but you're really talking about another thing... - con_carne Jun 19, 06:54 1
        
        Haha! -- nm - Krusty Jun 19, 06:56

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