"Two books is enough"

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During an internet chat, one of my American friends said:

I instantly felt weird about the verb and asked him "shouldn't the verb have been 'are'?"
But he said he feels perfectly natural about that and also, cannot explain the reason why.

Student · Answer

with regard to principles of the agreement between the subject and the verb, there is one called "notional agreement", meaning if the speaker identifies what he utters as "one", or "a whole", or "two parts", then the form of the verb changes accordingly to reflect "the notion".

Answered by Student on December 3, 2020

"Two books is enough"

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