Subject-Verb Agreement: ‘Two Plus Two Make Four’ vs. ‘Two Plus Two Makes Four’

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Two plus two make four.
Two plus two makes four.

What verb should I use there, make or makes?

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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.

Two plus two makes four.

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