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I always get annoyed at the poor subject verb agreement of this notif

I always get annoyed at the poor subject verb agreement of this notif

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Apparrently, there is such a thing as "notional agreement" ( 13 minutes is all I got. 5 million dollars has been transferred to your account). We programmers don't like that because it makes grammar fall out of our "rule-based" algorithm model. It is no longer syntactic :) https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/a-number-of-people-doesnt-understand-notional-agreement/