Two plus two make four.
Two plus two makes four.
What verb should I use there, make or makes?
Provide a reason also for your answer, please!
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Two plus two make four.
Two plus two makes four.
What verb should I use there, make or makes?
Provide a reason also for your answer, please!
Best Answer
You will occasionally hear people employ plus as a conjunction, and even see people write it. But here it is unambiguously a mathematical operator, and the phrase two plus two is unambiguously a single mathematical expression.