Snappy: There are many translations of the Bible. I love the King James version because of its poetic expressiveness. But, as others have posted, it is written in the contemporary English of 400 years ago. The English language has changed a lot

Hi, I just came across here and writing something. What about this sentence? Every dream has different story, I just don't remember exactly the whole story. Is it correct? I'm referring here several dreams, so should I use

I don't understand why 'are' comes into this. Surely "One of the countries" is singular. Can someone explain please? One is singular, that's why the main verb of the main clause is singular: is: One of the countries

The group, the population, the chorus, the class, the team - all of these can go either way, depending on how you think of them. Half the team is black and half the team is white. Half the team are men and half the team are women. Half the team is

"Work" is uncountable here, so you should use a singular verb, "a lot of work was / has been postponed." "Jobs" and "tasks" are countable, so you'd say "a lot of jobs / tasks were postponed."

Q1)When compound subject joined by and take the plural form of the verb. Wrong: here comes nanding and mandy. (plural verb) Right: here come nanding and mandy. (singular verb) Why is the singular verb correct not the plural ? Q2) when as well

Q1)When compound subject joined by and take the plural form of the verb. Wrong: here comes nanding and mandy. (plural verb) Right: here come nanding and mandy. (singular verb) Why is the singular verb correct not the plural ? Q2) when as well

Q1)When compound subject joined by and take the plural form of the verb. Wrong: here comes nanding and mandy. (plural verb) Right: here come nanding and mandy. (singular verb) Why is the singular verb correct not the plural ? Q2) when as well

Making a fresh pot of coffee and breakfast for us is what my mom does first thing every morning.. I have two nouns here, coffee and breakfast but verb is still singular. It sounds perfectly fine to my ears … When speaking, I would naturally use

There may be rules to the contrary, but my common sense tells me that you have a singular subject. Your singular verb "is" is correct, but your plural complement "blocks" is not. Offhand, I can't think of an example where a