Poll: The files sitting in the office that I was talking about yesterday are in disarray
The files sitting in the office that I was talking about yesterday are in disarray
Poll Stats
This Poll:
- Votes: 171
- Comments: 4
- Added: February 2012
Comments:
Subject-verb agreement applies.
The files .... are
If the office is the subject, it would be 'is in disarray'
Yesterday I was talking about the office in which the files are now sitting. (Non - native speaker, this is how I would paraphrase it.)
IT's the phrase "sitting in the office" that causes the trouble here. Cutting it, or moving it after the verb if that's the meaning, is the way to solve the ambiguity of the sentence.
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Angela Lourdes Colaco
I was talking about the files yesterday