Attraction

Attraction is a force that makes someone or something to gravitate towards the source object of the force. Such a force may be purely a thing of physics, such as in magnetism, or may be a thing in the realm of animal kingdom that we know as evocation of interest. Under its influence two objects tend to move towards each other.

In a grammatical construction, an attraction is the influence of a word on an other so as to make its form incorrect. Take this sentence for example-

The wages of sin is death.

The word 'wages' is plural and therefore use of 'is' is incorrect. However, if we write - the wages of sin are death, it would be incorrect because there cannot be more than one death. It is due to attraction the form of the verb 'to be' (is or are here) is distorted into incorrect form by the influence of both 'wages' and 'death'.

Nearby pages
Attractive, Attractiveness, Attributable, Attribute, Attribute data, Attribution theory