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Percentage Small Windmills Work Noun Plural Verb High

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Keyword percentage
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence Only a small percentage of the windmills still works.
Correct Sentence Only a small percentage of the windmills still work.
Cloze Error Sentence Only a small percentage of the windmills still [[works]].
Cloze Sentence Only a small percentage of the windmills still [[work]].
Cloze Answer work
Choices work | works
Explanation

If the noun after percentage of is plural, the verb is plural: 'A high percentage of these school leavers have no qualifications.'

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