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Which is correct ?
(OP)
Which is correct ?
A. We suspect the top-open end shields is the root cause of vibration due to resonance.
B. We suspect the top-open end shields are the root cause of vibration due to resonance.
A. We suspect the top-open end shields is the root cause of vibration due to resonance.
B. We suspect the top-open end shields are the root cause of vibration due to resonance.





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or "the top-open end shields are".
btw, "the top-open end shield" is difficult to understand quickly (and withuot seeing what you're talking about). maybe it's obvious (when you know more about the "shields"), maybe not !??
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There are two end shields (motor components) and both are giving a problem (vibration).
So, how do you say it A or B ?
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Would you say,
the shields is the root cause of vibration
or
the shields are the root cause of vibration
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Just a thought, could you have said instead
We suspect (that?) the top-open end shields are the root causes of vibration due to resonance.
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or "are resonating, causing vibration."
or "are driving the vibration, due to resonance."
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The problem of (blah blah blah) IS the root cause.
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Actually, my doubt was over the adjective used. The end shields per se were not a problem but the fact they were open-top was.
Consider this
"Children are the cause of commotion". This is fine.
Now,
"Noisy children is / are the cause of commotion."
Here the adjective "noisy" plays a crucial role. Hence, my doubt.
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"a noisy child is ..." is ok
or to turn somptingguy's post around "the children's niosiness is ..."
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Or possibly "the open top of the end shields is the cause..."
Hg
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The open-top design of the end shields is the root cause...
The problem is the design.
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"Children" is an example of that. The plural of "child", way back when, was "childer". Then sometime after "-er" ceased to be a normal plural suffix but "-en" was still in vogue (as in "oxen"), people didn't realize any more that "childer" was already plular with an "-er" suffix, and so "childeren" came to be. "Chilluns" is the next step.
Hg
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As in: The noisiness of children is what drives me to drink.
Dan
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I remember a recent issue of Design News where the cover proudly announced in 2 inch letters: "The High Tech Quandry". There is no such word as "Quandry". It's spelled "Quandary". Makes American Engineers look like a bunch of grammar-challenged idiots to the rest of the world. Aren't magazine editors supposed to check their spelling? Especially on covers?
KWS
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As long as the message is delivered nothing else matters. Language, words, spelling, etc. is nothing but a means of communication.
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when you're communicating with words, both the writer and the reader need to agree on what the words mean, and what they mean when they're put together (since context often adjusts the meaning). the basis of that understanding, like it or not, is grammar and spelling.
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I was partly being sarcastic, partly truthful. Languages, words and spellings do evolve overtime so no point in being worked up on a few misspells. If they get used often they will end up in dictionaries. They do.
But I do beleive that the engineers have as much right to invent new words as do anyone else. And newspaper, manual or magazine editors are not official writers. In fact newspapers are most notorious to flash words in twisted meanings in headlines.
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Engineer's acronyms are realtively easy decoded..:)