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Cherrypie10 wrote I can t think of a better site name before so I ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs they re the oldest so they re the one whom I love the most Is that correct A semicolon keeps it from being a run on sentence I would...

No people as I used it here and as it is used 99 83 of the time is plural It requires a different context to use people as a singular typically a people which is indefinite and neither that nor those is possible as a substitute for an indefinite Use the pronoun one or another instead Recall that...

as well as a fraction and all the demonstrative pronoun that can be used just the same way I think you have misunderstood The of after a fraction or after all is optional There is no parallel construction where the of after that is also optional one tenth of the population or one tenth the...

Forbes wrote Cool Breeze wrote Fortunately English is structurally so simple Hi ForbesIn the days of Old English the grammar of the language was more complicated than it is today nouns had three genders and there were even strong masculines as there are in modern German s wasn t the normal...

Clive wrote 1 Questions with negative words like nobody or nothing use positive tags 2 Although words like nobody and somebody use a singular verb was in your example a plural pronoun is commonly used to refer to them Thus what we say as a tag is this Nobody was expecting that were they Thank...

Hi Welcome to the Forum I ve got a question about tag questions A tag question is for ex You don t go home do you or It is strange isn t it How do you form a tag question if the subject is a pronoun like nobody or somebody Nobody was expecting that wasn t __ he it First a couple of comments 1...

Ms Birch has been working for the Internet provider which is now involved in a case of leaking customer information Lcchang asks Can I use who instead of which if I view the Internet provider as people I was thinking of the Internet provider as a company That s why I said it could be written as...

User_gary wrote The new rule by our school principal really glossed off our enthusiasm to score marks Incorrect use of gloss turned off would be acceptable Also in this context you do not score marks but achieve good marks We made our complaints to the government but the government glossed over...

LOL GG and that seems simple to you Grammar Geek wrote Anyway you need to let logic is there logic in English the requirement to avoid ambiguity is English not ambiguous the desire to avoid sounding silly how do I know what sounds silly and lastly what genuinely sounds right yeah lol everything...

Hi Nona Nona The Brit wrote team for plural you may not like it personally but it is accepted as grammatically correct Accepted by whom Can you provide a citation A Google search returns team is 12 4 million team are 1 2 million that s more than 10 1 in favour of the singular Even that is not...