to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave ….

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