In the media or in oral discourse, it is common to find phrases such as “The heads of each institution were invited”, “Last year, 2,674 visitors were received” or “In the next elections, the governors of the two states will be elected.”
As pointed out by the New grammar of the Spanish languagethis inappropriate use responds to the crossing of two structures: on the one hand, the impersonal sentence, in which the verb remains invariable in the singular and is followed by a direct object introduced by the preposition to (“The culprits are sought”); on the other, the reflex passive sentence, in which the verb agrees with its subject, without a preposition toso it can be plural (“Representatives will be chosen”).
Thus, in the previous examples, the indicated thing would have been to write “The heads of each institution were invited”, “Last year 2,674 visitors were received” and “In the next elections the governors of the two states will be elected.”
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