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Yury  +  538099 Tue, 08 Jul 08 03:50 AM
I learned that the following sentence is gramatically correct.

"ABCDEF Inc. is one of the best company in the USA."

In this sentence "company" seems to be a collective noun meaning companies.
Then, I suppose I can say "these company"  or "several company" etc.
But I was not able to find similar examples on the Internet.

Now I am lost. Please help.

 
Yury
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CalifJim  +  538109 Tue, 08 Jul 08 04:13 AM
Yury
“I learned that the following sentence is gramatically correct.

"ABCDEF Inc. is one of the best company in the USA."”
You learned it wrong!  Sorry!   Sad  The sentence is not correct.  It should be:

ABCDEF Inc. is one of the best companies in the USA.

CJ 

 
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