fails to make a clear claim
True, but they weren't very different since the Americans were English
Conflict avoidance is a person's method of reacting to conflict, which attempts to avoid directly confronting the issue at hand. Methods of doing this can include changing the subject, putting off a discussion until later, or simply not bringing up the subject of contention.
Compound subject it’s because two or more individual noun phrases coordinated to form a single, longer noun phrase. For English compound subjects joined by and, the agreement rules are generally unambiguous, but sometimes tricky.
