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Hi Magic Holidays is the British equivalent of vacation for the Americans Either way on is correct prep For me holiday was a troubling word when I was learning English Like many I didn t know when to use singular or plural as they were so confusing To give you a hint I have a few examples which...

I really don t want to wade my way into a quarrel especially on THIS topic where my feeling was that it takes a plural Even though Marius the king of searches found a singular use from an impeccable source if I heard it the way it s listed there it would sound marked and unnatural The thing I...

Ok guys thread resolved From BBC Learning English Service http www bbc co uk worldservice learningenglish grammar learnit learnitv149 shtml We now need actions rather than words What we now need are actions rather than words Actions rather than words are what we now need And from The Columbia...

I think to add to Mr M s post that it s confusing for those learning English that when we have possessives with word that change form in the plural we dont follow the s rule that usually applies to plural possessives The boy s bicycle is singular and the boys bicycles is plural but the child s...

To me a person learning English as a second language statuses seems a form more rational than stati as the plural of status I would like to say even spaghettuses paco

Mr M I agree that cloth and clothes are now regarded as different words though clothes was once before 19 century regarded as the plural of cloth I think the way to catch the sense s of an English word may differ from person to person As I am a native Japanese learning English as the second...

Hi Melaine Although i am learning english as a second language i will try to explain your problem Well your problem is related to Subject verb agreement In every sentence subject and verb should agree with each other Remember that Have is a plural auxiliary verb and Has is singular So whenever...