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Yes Are ([or is??) the following acceptable? Passing exams IS important to me. Yes Passing exams and enjoying college ARE important to me. Yes Supporting the Dallas Cowboys IS importing to Matt and Greg Yes Playing football and basketball MEANS a lot to Greg The next two depend if you think of...

Hello again.Are([or is??) the following acceptable...Passing exams IS important to me.Passing exams and enjoying college ARE important to me.Supporting the Dallas Cowboys IS importing to Matt and GregPlaying football and basketball MEANS a lot to GregPlaying football and playing basketball MEAN a...

Bob is one of those people who LIKE to watch football.Marxism is one of those theories that ARE seen as left-wing. Nora is one of the candidates who ARE worthy of my vote' These are all the same pattern. The blue is the main subject/main verb. The purple is just a portion of the noun phrase...

If he asks why there is no justification, what should the "critic's" answer be?In the case of flowers reds, I imagine the answer is that in English the adjectives come before the noun and are not inflected for plurality. Or put differently, nobody says it that way. In the case of the...

So, every single football team is considered as a single unit, right? And so, we have to use 'has', right? I don't know much about soccer, but with team names in general I would say that it depends on whether the name is in the singular or plural form. In baseball, for instance, we have the...

Hi New2grammar,I believe you got that from my post right?Anyway, I use the article 'the' in front of 'native speakers' because I was kind of refering to Grammar Geek, Nona, Clive, Hitchhiker, CalifJim. etc when I say the native speakers. However, you can use `the' with a singular count noun when...

Ghai_prince13 wrote:15.1. In one of periodicals of the country which language is studied, I’ve read interesting articles in”our earth” animal are not prisoner. We human have had a long association with wild animal. In the last few thousand year we have deepened on them for our very...

Vincent Teo wrote:(a) Day by day, the plants grew (into) many big and beautiful flowers. (b) They hoped the plants would grow soon. (c) The hobby of Ali is play football. Better as "Ali's hobby" (d) Angela is the shortest kid if them. ???? (e) He cycles with a slow speed. Better to use...

CalifJim wrote:STRAWberry or strawBErry?? Yup. The first. Virtually all compound nouns take greater stress on the first noun of the compound. strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, blackboard, blackbird, driveway, highway, football, basketball, baseball, household, ... CJyes. I...

STRAWberry or strawBErry?? Yup. The first. Virtually all compound nouns take greater stress on the first noun of the compound. strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, blackboard, blackbird, driveway, highway, football, basketball, baseball, household, ... CJ