By Singular verbs, Nouns

In the following cases, beer/wine/cruide oil are not countable nouns. Therefore, in order to count them, I added extra information and changed them as follows:1. Two bottles of beer 2. Two bottles of wine3. 1,000 gallons of cruide oilNow my question is this: Do the examples above 1 to 3 take a...

TaraC wrote: Thanks so much for the very clear response. Do you mind if I ask you one more question? What about the following sentence, when someone uses "one of..." to start the sentence. I have a book called "The Elements of Style" and is says not to use the singular verb form when using...

Here is an article I’ve found in the interest of singularity and plurality. It may be helpful in answering some of the questions.___________________________________________________________ Is None Singular or Plural? By Diane Sandford Published July 21, 2003 Welcome to a new feature from...

t without that 's', then it isn't English you speak. My Analyses: 1. The verb 'look' is defining the action done by the noun 'team'. 2. The noun 'team' is a collective word which means a set of persons or animals working together, so it is a singular word just like 'soldier'. 3. Recall: All...

Believer wrote: Hi, Yoong Liat I was looking at my Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for the word 'ash' and it had a notation among other notations something like this. Can you tell me if that tells anything about its countability. I am confused about the "also N in pl"...

"ignoring the historical fact of these terrible events increase(s) the risk they will be repeated" Being late makes me mad.Ignoring me makes me sad. "Ignoring" is the subject, and takes the singular verb, increases. It's easy, when you have a complex noun phrase, to lose track of what the...

According to Answers.com, although "none" is etymologically derived from OE "one", it has been used as both a singular and a plural word from that time on as evident in the Bible, works of J. Dryden & E. Burke and many present day well known authors. Today "None" is considered to be shortened...

Let me quote from 'Fowler's Modern English Usage'. The expression a number of + plural noun as in a number of people NORMALLY takes a plural verb in both BrE and AmE, because the plural noun is regarded as the 'head' of the noun phrase and therefore as the real subject: A number of books by...

Number. Like other collective nouns number may take either a singular or a plural verb. Unlike most of them, it admits of a simple and logical rule. When all that it is doing is forming part of a composite plural subject, it should have a plural verb, as in: A large number of people are...

A number of + plural noun + plural verb form The number of + plural noun + singular verb form