On Sun, 24 Jun 2018 at 14:46, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > Does/should one say "the degrees of freedom is defined to be" or "the > degrees of freedom are defined to be"?
"are", the noun in your statement is "degrees", while the fragment "of freedom" acts as an adjective, narrowing the scope of the term "degrees". Hope that helps... -- H -- OpenPGP: https://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFEBAD7FFD041BBA1 If you wish to request my time, please do so using bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. Si vous voudrais faire connnaisance, allez a bit.ly/hd1AppointmentRequest. Sent from my mobile device Envoye de mon portable ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
