In Nouns^x, Singular nouns^x

Uh, no offense but their are a whole lot of misconceptions about American English in this thread. The "fag" thing has already been pointed out, so I'll let that one be. "The main difference between British English and American English is that in the former there is perfect grammar even in the...

Hello Mr P Thank you for the wonderful reply. Now I understand, as pointed out by Prf KoMt, that my statement that 'one in ten' should be taken as a singular noun was wrong. I'm surprised to hear from you that cherry trees are already in bloom in England, because I thought the temperature...

Hello Teachers, 1.He is really a good boy. 2.He is a really good boy. I want to know that if there is an adjective modifying a singular noun and an adverb modifying that adjective then where I should put the article. Which one is correct? Thanks.

Hello Jack's question is interesting. I've four grammar books and what they say is in agreement with Mr Mic and Pieanne. So Jack's sentence would be incorrect as a standard expression of English. But it is also true many people online are taking plural seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,...

With that example sentence, either 'has' or 'have' will work. It depends on whether you interpret "Soay sheep" as an inanimate thing (i.e., a name, a breed, a singular noun, as CJ explained) or as animate beings, a plural noun (i.e., animals). The subject and its verb are underlined: ...

'Five books' is a piece of idea. From the word 'five' we know it means more than one book. The question is why we put an extra 's' to denote it is a plural? If we don't put this 's', shall somebody mistake what we mean to say? This is another example of double expressing.. There is no logical...

In addition consider: The number is infinite. The number of variations is infinite. The number of conspirators is greater than we thought. The number of members is increasing. I do not agree that "are" is proper in any of these examples. It may be used and accepted by some, but number and...

I have an idea each is idiomatic. To me, both 'said' and 'the said' are acceptable, with 'said' sounding more legalistic. In the second case, only 'the mentioned' is possible; the article is mandatory, as with 'the above-mentioned' and ' the aforementioned'. We are speaking of singular nouns,...

1) Derivation often changes the word's lexical category, but not always: great (adjective) => great+ly => greatly (adverb) dog (noun) => dog + house => doghouse (noun) 2) Inflection doesn't change the word's lexical category. It adds meaning: number, person, tense: Number: dog (singular...

I often see sentences where the object noun or the predicate noun is in disagreement with the subject in number. In most case this kind of imbalanced singular noun is followed by a sentence or clause that explains it. I feel this disagreement would be intentionally used by writers to attract...