Hi, If you'll permit me to ask you, are you a native speaker? I can't decide. The English that you use to ask your questions suggests to me that you are, but the content of your questions suggests to me that you aren't. I don't

The subjective "I" is correct, but most people use the objective "me." Regardless of the case, you need a singular verb "bothers" to agree with a singular subject "it." Of course they're in two separate

Hi, The boy has a ball. singular verb The boys have a ball. plural verb Clive

It's you who's been bothering me! It's you guys who've been bothering me! I think the pattern is: Singular you -> Singular verb Plural you -> Plural verb That's a very good point, Kooyeen, which I

It's you who's been bothering me! It's you guys who've been bothering me! I think the pattern is: Singular you -> Singular verb Plural you -> Plural verb But not everyone follows that pattern. It's not necessary

You are certainly not the first person with questions about agreement in instances such as this one. I can contribute one bit of information. If together with introduces a parenthetical phrase, as some suggest it always does, then the singular

Are may sound better because of its proximity to the plural components , but either takes a singular verb form: is .

It's not a grammar rule: it's a style suggestion. People are often confused by the use of the singular verb in such a construction, even though it is completely grammatically correct. By inverting the order of the parts, this whole issue

The grammar book is right. "Nobody" and "no one" take singular verbs. The phrase "you and I" is object of the preposition (in this case) "but," and has nothing to do with the verb. The prepositional phrase

Hi again, I am about to complete all sentences, however, little confusion occurs in my this old posted sentence-- subject-verb agreement. It seems their advertising work has been affected by the lack of team collaboration among their top