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Hello ElaMiNaTo, hello Teacher E., I'm sorry, my answer was slightly confusing. A collective noun is the name for a set of 'something'. Without the 'something', the collective noun cannot exist. You can't have a 'flock' without 'sheep'. 'Germany' however is primarily the name for a...

here is a little abridgement of Collin Cobuild English Grammar: "When you use a collective noun, you can use either a single verb or a plural verb after it. You choose a singular verb if you think of the group as a single unit, and a plural verb if you think of the group as a number of...

Hello Casi, Thank you so much for your assistance, It so nice of you, I have a better understanding now. Can I asked a few questions? You mentioned noun cannot occur after seem. Why is that so? It seem to me that the sentence (she seem a doctor ) is ok. You mean this sentence is wrong because...

- singular noun; singular verb, vice versa Don't think it is as easy as you can imagine like the following One person is... Two persons are... I am… You are… Try the following. Fill in the blanks (how "be" is changed for the following?): Either of 2 people __ Either you or I __ Either I or you...

- unreasonable classification of (un)count noun (noun) I am going to explain how they are annoying (especially to learners, but not limited to learners only. Native speakers suffer too!) ...

1.some of the pie is missing. (Compare: some of the pies are missing) Here "some" refer to "some pies", plural noun uses so-called plural verb 2.none of the three is interested. "none" here refers to not any one (of the three). "Not any one" is singular. Use so-called singular verb. 3.The crew...

Data, It's an interesting question. I saw two usage notes. From GuruNet.com... Let's go through them. USAGE NOTE The word data is the plural of Latin datum, “something given,” but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from...

It should be "There are a lot of people..." (count noun) "There is a lot of sugar..." (noncount noun) Some native speakers use a singular verb even when the subject is plural, as in "There's some books on the shelf." This is fairly frequent, but it is not generally considered...

In sentences with "to be" as the main verb, and in which both the subject and the subject complement are noun phrases, it isn't always easy to decide which is which. In the example, "ten miles" can certainly be the subject of the sentence as much as "a long way to walk" can. Haogide is right in...

The sentence is Nine years of experience "has" equiped me. Someone told me this was incorrect and that I should use "have." My understanding is that plural nouns of amount, distance and so forth, when used as singular units of measurement, take singular verbs. Please help:) Thanks