In Verbs^x, Singular nouns^x

There is are a lot of questions which need/ needs to be answered.1 There was / were was a great deal of confusions at that moment…..2 There was were a few among us who still believed /believes that ……3 ___________________ 1 'a lot of' is number transparent. Make the agreement with...

So with expressions such as "a number of", "a lot of" and "the rest of", is it singular or plural? Now I am really curious.It is not a matter of whether those expressions are singular or plural. They are neither, in the sense that verb agreement does not depend on them at all. Verb agreement...

Hi, I'm confused on when to put s after a word. For example. ...Words that describe OR Words that describes Your business buy me a new car or Your business buys me... Basically, what's the general rule in adding s after certain type of words? Basically, for singular nouns, use a singular...

A wide range of investment is available to the public. – Investment is the singular noun closest to the verb and is correct. Similar contexts are found in Google: LetsSingIt Forum | i found out a bunch of my friends are gay ... i found out a bunch of my friends are gay. ... mixed...

I have gone through a lot of the old posts on the topic any. This is my understanding of any usage. Any can be followed by a plural/uncountable/singular noun. 1. When any is used in interogative or negative form, it is usually followed by a plural/uncountable noun. Does it mean that the verb...

Lewis, as I've said, if you can provide me from an authoritive source that 'police' can be used with a singular verb, then I've have to agree that a singular verb can be used with 'police'. I'm not saying that only dictionaries and books on English should be used to prove our point. I told you...

People have found this text useful so I am repeating it here in this entirety with error fixed (there are several posts combined in it) Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass,...

Before I give you more detailed explanation I have to tell you that in dictionaries you can frequently find the type of the word: countable, uncountable, mass, abstract… However what is more important is to understand that the context is equally important. You can turn many words into abstract if...

The first one, because -- actually, I'm not quite sure how to explain it. Well, a quick search on google for "thing after thing was" has about 100 results, while "thing after thing were" has none. Hmm. As I understand it, the only way to form a plural subject out of two singular nouns is to...

From a grammatical point of view, both sentences are incorrect because the verb does not agree with the subject. What makes me feel happy are my friends. Here the subject is the noun clause "what makes me feel happy". The noun clause functions as a singular noun. The sentence should...