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Errors in the summary of the featured article
Errors with "In the news"
- Paralympics
- In the first blurb "The Winter Paralympics close in northern Italy.", I think conclude would be a better synonym to use here since the blurb is about the event ending. Furthermore, while I am not a grammar expert, but I believe the blurb is written with the subject (The Winter Paralympics) in third person, so I think the proper form for the verb, in this case, would be closes/concludes. I may be wrong though. ~2026-16552-33 (talk) 12:40, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- @~2026-16552-33: As the link for the verb in the sentence points to the 2026 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony article, "close" seems the correct choice. "The Winter Paralympics" is the sentence's subject, so it's written as
first-personthird-person plural; "closes" would be incorrect. Bazza 7 (talk) 12:57, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- @~2026-16552-33: As the link for the verb in the sentence points to the 2026 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony article, "close" seems the correct choice. "The Winter Paralympics" is the sentence's subject, so it's written as
- No, it is written as a third-person plural (they), not a first-person plural (we); but Bazza 7 is right that "close" is correct. One might conceivably instead consider the Paralympics as a singular collective noun, but I think the idea is that it stands for Paralympic Games, so the plural does sound better, at least to my British ears. JMCHutchinson (talk) 14:30, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- To my American ear, it would be "Paralympics closes" but "Paralympic Games close". --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- Google Ngrams Art LaPella (talk) 14:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Jmchutchinson: Thanks for the correction. Too much nerdiness on my part. Corrected above. Bazza 7 (talk) 14:47, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- No, it is written as a third-person plural (they), not a first-person plural (we); but Bazza 7 is right that "close" is correct. One might conceivably instead consider the Paralympics as a singular collective noun, but I think the idea is that it stands for Paralympic Games, so the plural does sound better, at least to my British ears. JMCHutchinson (talk) 14:30, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
- As a BrE speaker, I agree with the OP that 'conclude' would be more idiomatic. The closing ceremony and the conclusion of the games are two distinct concepts - the games conclude with the closing ceremony. However 'close' is still comprehensible, so if this is an ENGVAR difference it's not worth changing. Modest Genius talk 14:44, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
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