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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 Realia is a plural as it refers to more than one item so say...

What sometimes seems to have a plural force but nevertheless requires a singular verb Clearly we would say What is needed is a spotlight but what if spotlights the plural form is used instead The options are these What is needed here is spotlights What are needed are spotlights X What is needed...

Hi LiJ Perhaps you caught that error in my recent post It was illogical for me to write more than one options Since I made that error it is better for me to borrow this text from The American Heritage Book of English Usage to share with you Here s a riddle How can you have more than one and still...

Hi check these please Neither you nor he is giving me present do we use singular verb with neither or plural verb with neither Are we supposed to follow the second subject HE to determine the to be is or is it as long as there s one plural subject in it it must use plural verb You or he is...

Thank you both K and Marius for your input Of course I know that combination needs a singular verb and attributes a plural one I started having trouble with that sentence when I first read it out that s probably because attributes is too close to discerns

quote user Kooyeen MrP s example was different It shows you could say parents could take a singular verb Parents is not spelled parence quote Do you mean percent

Hi Awence yes you can say a drug or several drugs With plurals you use a plural verb in those kinds of structures Some of the drugs are dangerous One half of the drugs are dangerous Fifty percent of the drugs are dangerous MrP s example was different It shows you could say parents could take a...

quote user ytsirk quote user Kooyeen It s not true more is plural if you had water instead of drugs you would say that more than 50 of the water is polluted wouldn t you Water is uncountable so you use a singular verb quote I apologize for not qualifying my comment In that sentence more is...