Hi, I needed to write a report for each student according to his or her level of understanding . Clive Or, you could use the trick of making student plural: all students....their levels.

Should we use singular or plural verbs after 'couple'? It depends how you use the word. That couple is going to be married next month. A couple of customers ar e waiting at the door. CJ

hi , the following contents are copied from another forum (very interesting) they suggest that vacancy should be treated as a collective noun the logic for sentence 1 and 2 is correct the logic for sentence 3 is wrong part1 Vacancy should be

Hi there ! Can I use some thing like this phrase "Users' systems" ? They are like both plurals that's why. Could anyone tell me please? Thanks.

Prescriptively speaking, "is" would be safer to use for formal English. However, when "neither" is followed by "of + plural noun", using a plural verb is extremely common -- particularly in everyday informal English.

Hello Uktous The answer to your question is in the different meanings of the terms ' entry vacancy' and 'entry' . 'Entry vacancy' means the single vacancy available from the entry. ' Entry ' means

Because 'a lot of' means 'many', and the subject is plural 'friends'. Mister Micawber to the rescue! Thanks.

Because 'a lot of' means 'many', and the subject is plural 'friends'.

That's how I see it, too. However, I'm a good enough computer expert to say whether the use of the plural technologies is really justified in this context - in other words, whether there really are many computer technologies or not. CB

Anecdotes. Did you suspect something else?