Hi. What is written in Malachi 1:14 of the Bible, New International Version, is this. 14 "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord. For I am a

I read that in order to find the subject of a sentence, search for a verb and then decide "who" performed that action. So, in "According to scientists, a cat lives long.", the subject is "cat" and hence we use a

Hi again, Let me offer and discuss a few examples that are very simple and concrete. Tom bought a table, a chair and a stool . He bought three things. Tom bought a table, a chair or a stool. He bought one thing. Tom bought

http://www.eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos3.htm http://www.towson.edu/ows/sub-verb.htm These two sites explain very well.

Noun phrases with every take a singular verb, strange as that may seem to you. CJ

why is "two of us IS here" correct? It is not correct. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the side chat that Marius and I had earlier in this thread. The confusion is due to a misinterpretation of a few joking remarks that

(numbers) a large quantity or amount, often in contrast to a smaller one; numerical preponderance. The weight of numbers turned the battle against them . You use number with words such as `large' or `small' to say approximately how many

American or British, "a group" of anything is always singular in my book. collective noun ( grammar ) a singular noun, such as 'committee' or 'team, that refers to a group of animals, people or things, and, in BrE, can be

Your question is too general. All we can do in such cases is give very general advice, such as "Study the verbs more, and be more careful with number agreement in sentences". If you have specific questions about specific sentences,

Hi Anon You will have to try to be a little more specific. Do you mean that you have trouble with things like the following? I have You have He/she/it has I run You run He/she/it runs