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Magda wrote Thank you all for your answers I asked this queston because I read somewhere a sentence What is the government doing Can t they so I thaught that with police it would be the same story Best regards A collective noun can be used with either a singular or plural noun However police is...

Proven USA Prove Britian In Britan a singular verb is used after none plus of plural noun pronoun but informally a plural verb could be used as well In USA a plural verb is used after none plus of plural noun pronoun

The first one because actually I m not quite sure how to explain it Well a quick search on google for thing after thing was has about 100 results while thing after thing were has none Hmm As I understand it the only way to form a plural subject out of two singular nouns is to join them with the...

Please can someone explain me the use of notional agreement How and where should we use it and what effect it may have on the meaning of a sentence The government is considering the proposal The government are considering the proposalSimilarly when two nouns are connected by a conjunction we can...

Yes rate gets a singular verb It s a countable noun You can have growth rates as well

I ve found the followng article in The American Heritage Book of English According to the traditional rule nothing is invariably treated as a singular even when followed by an exception phrase containing a plural noun 1 Nothing except your fears stands not stand in your way 2 Nothing but roses...

I guess I m not making myself clear enough I understand that the some people say that neither takes a singular verb and other people say that it must agree with the closest noun But that doesn t change the fact that I and my friends regard these sentences as acceptable Neither she nor her sister...

Either is a word that causes endless problems not only for writers but also sometimes for those who wish to guide them The style manual for the London Times for instance states flatly that neither takes a singular verb e g Neither Bert nor Fred has any idea That is true enough to be sure for...

Feathers wrote Grammarian bot wrote Inchoateknowledge wrote Police is a plural noun can not have singular verb attached to it thus not collective noun army is a singular countable one There is no reason for why it is so BTW I could not download the link So it means that there are plural nouns...

Grammarian bot wrote Inchoateknowledge wrote Police is a plural noun can not have singular verb attached to it thus not collective noun army is a singular countable one There is no reason for why it is so BTW I could not download the link So it means that there are plural nouns that always take...