By Singular verbs

Hi, Please correct this. Is the comma before 'ready' OK? Hi, I hope you all had very relaxing holidays and are back in your work places, ready to work on new assignments... Our thanks go (goes??) to John Doe for his remarkable work on making sure every sector of our company works to its...

It's the same in BrE; either a singular or a plural verb can be used after 'family'. My family was/were in Orchard Road last Sunday.

You need some sort of determiner before "meal." In the U.S., we generlaly use a singular verb for family, but would still use "their" in the plural. The dining area is where the family has/eats their meals.

I was reading a special English sentence stucture called "cleft sentence" in my grammar book, and I found one sentence I think is sort of strange: It was my sisters that were dancing. I think that since the subject is "my sisters", then why it has a singular verb...

Hi, I have something I really need to ask. It's about some tricky usage of singular and plural verbs. I hope you could please check out these sentence for me and see which verb should be used. My grammar books all fail to give me an answer, so I come here for your help. Only 2 yards of...

Could be a difference in different versions of English (or it could be just me) but all of those examples grate horribly to me. It might be to do with how we view the word 'series'. Would you say A bunch of flowers is in the vase. or A bunch of flowers are in the vase. To me, a...

Hi Fruit is a collective noun taking a singular verb: Fruit is good for you. Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables. The tree bears fruit (not fruits). The plural fruits is used in talking about different types of fruit: oranges, apples and other fruits. The plural form fruits is rarely used and...

Hi,it doesn't matter whether you know you are referring to more than one person or not. Whenever "who" is the subject, you use a singular verb anyway. By the way, I would have said "them" in your examples. Who? You or them?

A month and a half has passed since I saw him. Is this sentence correct in using singular verb? Thank you for your answer!!

Hi, Please tell me which ones are right ones to use. 1. ... using realia such as this -- I have difficculty using the singular form ''this" after words like 'realia' and 'equipment' that seem to denote multiple items. Is it OK to use the singular form?...