number agreement

1. 1.

   agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)

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Questions about number agreement

What does number agreement mean?

number agreement means "agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)".

Is number agreement a common word?

number agreement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.