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Contacts -> Manage contacts -> Contact categories I don't normally say or hear "buses drivers", "trucks drivers", "cars dealers", "cards dealers", or similar expressions, so I doubt I would say "contacts categories". If a contact is essentially an address, and you wouldn't say...

I agree with cairn, a) from A University Grammar of English, Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum, ELBS with Longman, ISBN 0 582 05886 4, page 179. " Indefinite expression of amount 7.24 Another area of ambivalence is that of indefinite and negative expressions of amount. For...

Let's imagine there are two boys. Either wears a red cap. Then, which one (ones) of the following sentences is (are) correct? (1) Two caps of the two boys are red. (2) Two caps of the boys are red. (3) Two caps of the boy are red. Or, is there more decent expression? Thank you...

Hi, Cairn, I hate to be a doubting Thomas, but since expressions like "None of the meat was spoiled" would be singular (whether the agreement is with "none" or with "meat"), I don't see what the tallies prove. Wouldn't you need to isolate only cases where "none of" was followed by a...

Hello aruzinsky I read the similar question in the Linguistic forum. I didn't trace your discussion to the end and I have no idea about the meaning of bare plurals. I just came across the site in which three key words: AI, the interpreation of expressions and the legal responsibility. I...

Roro, again thank you for your responses. I am in no hurry. It is not important that you respond. And as to the question if bare plurals' main function is hyperbole ... or as you put it before ... to manipulate people to infer more than what is implied ... or not, I doubt it. Isn't this one of...

Hello aruzinsky, and thank you for your reply. (Sorry, I just wanted to be more polite!) I think now I understand your question a little bit better. Yes, I intended to define the term , of course, using the terms of a set theory. I will. I think H. Verkuyl's explanation/theory is the best one,...

Dear Benita, Children itself is a plural form, as you know. If you've seen the form "childrens" somewhere, it's a typo (a typographical mistake) meaning either "children" or "children's". However, hair can be used both as countable and uncountable. So we can have "hairs" as in the expression...

CalifJim wrote: You are compounding the problem here, however, by using "number of" together with "there is/are", which, at least in relaxed style, can almost always be "there is" no matter what the grammatical number of the following expression. So, "there is" can be used, but not in very...

maxmouse, Technically, neither sentence is exactly very idiomatic. You need a little more. "There is/are a large number of students waiting in line", for example. That said, "number of" is an exception. It takes the plural. So "there are" is correct. You are compounding the problem here,...