Hello, Pleasehelp, How many pieces of T-shirts do you want? is decidedly ungrammatical: *pieces of T-shirts is a partitive construction (featuring partition in respect of quantity). The partitive a piece of is used with words denoting an

'Neither' and 'either' are singular and require singular verbs. However, sometimes, especially in interrogative constructions, 'neither' and 'either' can take a plural verb if followed by 'of'. Are either

Hello. I often use that type of construction. Where I live, we don't generally use 'me' - though I have heard that being used down in England - we use 'us' in both singular and plural cases. It doesn't really add any extra

Hi, Many of us may not be able to answer this question readily because there is bound to be objective criteria to consider. In this construction, why doesn't 'be' need to agree with the plural noun 'criteria'? Why not use

According to what I learned, that is only applicable to subjects using constructs such as 'either or'. Either the dog or the cat is leaving. Either the dogs or the cats are leaving. Eiter the cat or the dogs are leaving. Either the dogs or

Hi Mirko, For official documentation, which of the two constructions is correct English. Relevant data are entered in the software. or Relevant data is entered in the software. I personally thing it should be "data

Hello, For official documentation, which of the two constructions is correct English. Relevant data are entered in the software. or Relevant data is entered in the software. I personally thing it should be "data is entered", but

One can have many problems in dealing with people! Communication problems, problems in agreeing on something, clashes in characters, and so on. Either singluar or plural is OK! Regards, A- s

Hi Zazzex The following should enable to understand Mr Wordy's reply. Please note that in British English, it should be: There is a cat and a dog. Below is the information extracted from two books on English usage. The first book

Both are fine, but I would use the plural ' benefits '.