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Choose the right answer Some medicines have side effects affects on the body Pollution may cause reason extinction What is the reason cause of the fire What s the reason cause for coming late Your destination is the place you are going to coming form in on at the first day of school students meet...

hi could anyone help me which one is the correct way to say this 1 let s find out what s in the room 2 let s find out what in the room is Since i learnt that if there s embedded question the second must be subject verb order or wh question verb so I d think that number 2 is the correct one but...

Yes I agree with HT Obama is saying that there are greater number of uncommitted voters than the number cited by Clinton It would be more clear if they used a verb of the delegates ARE up for grabs

This post is a little dated but since I ve been working with my students on this very topic I thought I d post First you can t understand what the object of the preposition is if you don t first know how to identify prepositions So you need to find a list google list prepositions English or...

Google is a handy tool but you definitely have to look at and evaluate what it spits out at you My favorite example is the search results Google gives you for the grammatically incorrect phrase look forward to see If you went by the number of hits alone you might well be misled into believing...

Marius Hancu wrote Seven years gt have but you ll see both However It s going to be the best Christmas ever because this year I have done everything myself and the horrible atmosphere of the last seven years has lifted I agree with Marius In English the grammatical number of the subject is often...

Belly wrote There seem to be some problems There seems to be a problem Are they correct I ve never understood why in these constructions the very impersonal verb there seem s should be dictated as to number by what follows However these sound quite natural to me probably because that s the way...

Ok thanks everyone So both are acceptable to British ears I wonder if American ears might have something against it Let s hope not By the way I always use a plural verb with a number of and a singular one with the number of but I have no problems with that I would use a plural verb with an...

PS It occurs to me that a number of singular verb doesn t sound odd if number is qualified e g 1 There is only a very small number of tickets available 2 There is a limited number of possible outcomes MrP

Hello HT Hoa Thai wrote My old note stated a number of is plural and the number of is singular We can apply this logic of yours to a number of too right 1 There is a number of reasons why my post may be misleading 2 There are a number of reasons why my post may be misleading Though I do often...