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Inchoateknowledge 171 I beg your pardon 187 Me This shouldn t be a question right Mister Micawber wrote 171 Use the plural if you are conceiving of the several members our staff do not feel well informed Use the singular if you are speaking of the body Microsoft s staff is bigger than Apple s...

Diamondrg wrote a number of means several so it is not wrong A large number of invitations has been sent to you The subject modifiers not the subject are highlighted in red number subjecthas been sent verbhave been sent incorrect because there is no subject verb agreement however widely accepted...

After a number of we normally use a plural verb e g A number of questions were asked Unit 79 Oxford Practice Grammar A number of us are worried about it Page 61 Swan s How English Works That site you mentioned Inchoateknowledge in another posting gives an example of how a singular verb can be...

Which do you think is the subject in this sentence Yong I am asking because the verb has to be in singular plural concord with it A large number of invitations has have been sentIt is number and not numbers singular accord number has

Hi Do they know where who to RSVP to Also I d leave out Messrs as this is the plural of Mr unless you know you are only inviting men and that more than one man is included on each invitation

1 As far as I am concerned any combination is fine as long as the meaning is clear e g one invitation per member I merely think it is more consistent to match singular with singular and plural with plural However in your sentences not all permutations are possible there seems to be easy confusion...

1 Whenever I encounter the kind of sentences as below I want to put a plural of the underlined phrases eventhough the rule or the convention seem to recommend a singular version Help We would like to extend an invitation why not invitations to any other members of your team to participate We...

Onh1986 wrote Hello Can pronoun It be used in the plural Please read this sentence I sent the invitations to my friends And which one of both sentences is correct I sent it to my friends I sent them to my friends Thank you for assistance It is singular so the first sentence is incorrect if it...

Hello Can pronoun It be used in the plural Please read this sentence I sent the invitations to my friends And which one of both sentences is correct I sent it to my friends I sent them to my friends Thank you for assistance

I d say the second if the Bensons are a couple then it must be in the plural But you ll say come to the Bensons house for a drink blah blah