In British people^x, Verbs^x

Hi RickyNo, it's not true. The participle following acts as a plural noun in your sentence because of the the and since there are three examples, the plural verb is right. Adjectives become nouns if the is placed before them. Following can act as an adjective: In the following way. Examples of...

Collective nouns can be seen as notionally singular or plural, depending on whether one focusses on the group as a unit, or on the individual members. Americans are more likely to see "collective" nouns as single groups, and therefore use singular verbs, and British people are more likely to use...

Dear teachers, I have done the work again and answered the comprehension questions. Would you please have a look at it and give me your corrections? QUESTIONS: 1) How does Rene describe the old lady? “a crusty old stick” + “This is going to be a bit of an effort, and I plucked up courage and...

Dear teachers, Would you please correct my answers? But before that I’d like to ask you if I understood the meaning of the underlined expressions or ideas. Furthermore, I’d like to ask British teachers if they confirm what she says about the “British thing” and give me more elements about this...

Ville_maddengurl wrote:i want to give American accent up and learn English accent to talk more intelligible...is it OK now, MrP ..? I'm sorry, VM, you're going to have to speak much more slowly. In fragments. Without verbs. And say "er" and "um" and "right?" a lot. And add quite a few...

Clive wrote:I believe 'should' in this context is more a feature of BrE.Hello I vaguely remember I learned "I should have liked to do" in school days, X decades ago. And I have thought it is a BrE version of "I would have liked to do". But I have found on Google that current British people...

Dear Joey_five, You may think of it as «He watched in order to make sure he finished the job». I have noticed that British people use plural verbs with «none». I do not know what American people use. Kind regards, Goldmund

a good X hits only less than 1000 pages And it seems the latter expression is not common among British

Hello CJ Thank you for the quick reply. The distinction between 'bring' and 'take' is really messy to us Japanese (who use the same verb for the both). Anyway it is interesting you use 'forget to take something' instead of 'forget to bring something' even in the case you are speaking in a place...

Hello guys I have a question about 'forget' and I would like to ask it on this occasion. I've learned in school about 'forget' that we can say 'I forgot my umbrella' in the meaning of 'I inadvertently left my umbrella' but we cannot add a place adverbial to this phrase like 'I forgot my...