Again from VOA,

In our last episode, (Email Removed), the lovely and talented nick broadcast on alt.usage.english: Again from VOA,

"New X-Ray machines that can see through people's clothese are going to be fitted at airports to improve security. That is so going to be abused." You might want to listen to R4's Word of Mouth from yesterday, in which Stephen

Once again. I thought I'd run out of ways to be confused on this, but I haven't. I was talking ... it, bit neither Denmark, Sweden, nor Norway have it". Then I got confused about whether the "have" should've been

A couple of weeks ago, "Becky" asked about: The experimental curves for A, B and C all fitted to a single exponential with a rate constant of 1.0, ... don't like the idea of using a plural subject ("curves") and singular

Although I fully agree with what Donna says, it may be helpful (or it may be confusing) to know that the subject of the verb "look(s)" in the original sentence, and of "Is" or "are" in Donna's example, is

My colleagues and I are writing a technical report. I wrote the following: The experimental curves for A, B and C all fitted to a single exponential with a rate constant of 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, respectively. Is this correct English? The thing is,

(1) Other Englishes, such as that of the UK, sometimes use plural verbs with grammatically singular nouns, as in "Parliament are voting on the tariff bill." They may do this with "everyone" as well. But that doesn't go in

Greetings, I'm wonder which of the following is more correct: 'Everyone around here, even the officers, are really excited...' 'Everyone ... are really excited" so I'm completely confused. Can anyone shed some light for a

It's true that that is the exception in the guidebook that I quoted, a post or two ago: when the idea conveyed by a plural subject is singular in intent, the verb is usually singular: Five years is a long time. Yes, indeed. It's not