http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralEnglishGrammarQuestions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.enCSMOD (Build: 3191.21962)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/grrrc/post.htm#501128Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:24:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501128Newguest0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/grrrc/post.htm#501128http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501128.xml<p>You were really fast guys :) Thanks!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqw/post.htm#501117Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:42:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501117Dejanm831http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqw/post.htm#501117http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501117.xmlLOL, three simultaneous answers...<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqh/post.htm#501116Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:41:21 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501116Dejanm832http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqh/post.htm#501116http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501116.xmlExceptions to what? :D<br /><br />Anyway, the verb in the first part of the sentences is singular because &quot;someone&quot; and &quot;nobody&quot; are singular. In the second part, &quot;they&quot; is used as a sex-neutral pronoun, and since it is plural, the verb is as well.<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqg/post.htm#501115Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:36:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501115Kooyeen3http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqg/post.htm#501115http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501115.xmlHi,<br />why are thy exceptions? What&#39;s wrong?<br />Oh, are you referring to &quot;they&quot;? In that case, it&#39;s often used as a singular pronoun when you don&#39;t know someone&#39;s sex, so it&#39;s usually used with &quot;someone&quot;, &quot;no one&quot;, &quot;anyone&quot;, etc. Some people don&#39;t accept that &quot;they&quot; is used that way, and will tell you it&#39;s wrong and you should use &quot;his or her&quot; instead, especially in formal contexts. <br />Was that what you were worried about? <img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqz/post.htm#501114Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:34:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501114Pao34http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqz/post.htm#501114http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501114.xmlIn my humble opinion it is so because &quot;someone&quot; or &quot;nobody&quot; stands for both male(he) and female(she). Therefore we use &quot;they&quot; so we stay gender neutral...<br />(in old english &quot;man&quot;-he, his- was used in this case)<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqb/post.htmTue, 15 Apr 2008 18:26:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:501110Newguest5http://www.englishforums.com/English/Exceptions/zqqqb/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-501110.xml<p>Hi</p> <p>1. Someone&#39;s been taking my food again, haven&#39;t they? </p> <p>2. Nobody has phoned, have they?</p> <p>I know these are exceptions. However, is there any explanation why this should be so?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>