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[raewon]

Aging is important because the latter (depend/depends) on transmitted information.


Here is my question: If "the latter" is referring to a plural subject, which is the correct answer (depend/depends)? None of my references give an example of this, and I've found conflicting "opinions" on the net.

Thanks if you can shed the light on this one.

[YTMND]

Where does it say "aging" is plural?

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[edwardcatflap]

Your sentence doesn't make any sense. You only use 'the latter' if you are referring to the last of two or more nouns but in your sentence there's only one noun so you'd use 'it' What was the original sentence in its entirety?

[raewon]

Sorry - that sentence was a bad example for my question. Latter was referring to a plural noun in the previous sentence (so I was told).
Would that be possible?

Anyway, imagine the following:

~.....[Noun 1] and [Plural Noun 2] because the latter (depend/depends)
on ~.

In that structure, does the agreement go with "the latter" (depends)
or with [Plural noun 2] (depend)?

Thanks for the replies.

[YTMND]

[iggyb]

[iggyb]

I guess the test to see which is correct (depend or depends) is to substitute the referred to noun for "the later":

[raewon]

Thanks for all the replies.

Thanks, iggyb - yes - those examples illustrate what I was trying to express.
Thanks a lot.

[YTMND]

But it is "the latter". "The latter" is always singular.

[raewon]

YTMND wrote: