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Wed, 17 Dec 03 04:17 PM
I'm a web developer for a medical information company. Just now, I was handed an error message to show to expired subscribers. Something about the grammar didn't feel quite right. No one else here seems to think it's wrong, but I can't seem to let it go. I think this is a common grammar question. Is the following sentence correct?
"Your subscription has expired and this user name and password is no longer active."
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Dima,
5 yr 326 days ago
Hi,
If u want my opinion I think it's 'are'. But u can wait and read what other users say.
Dima.
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Wed, 07 Jan 04 08:53 PM
"Your subscription has expired and this user name and password is no longer active."
Even though you think that user name and password should be 2 things( and you want it to be are which would apply to a plural, I think that in the context of this sentence it seems to be singular , not plural. "This" in the sentence seems to apply to a single item or thing.
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