In Countable nouns^x, Sentence structures^x

Hi Liat,I think what you said is contradicting. You are saying both of my exmaples are grammatically acceptable only with the right perception. A group of students was found lost in the forest. (If the students are perceived as a group, is should be used.) If the rule sticks as you described...

Hi Goodman A group of students was found lost in the forest. (If the students are perceived as a group, is should be used.) A group of students were found lost in the forest. (If the students are perceived as individual students are could be used.) Half / 50% of the students were absent....

Goodman wrote: Um……. I beg to differ. If Iam correct, the height in this case is a collective non-countable noun which should be “is”, not “are”. “The difference between love and hate is separated by a thin line”. If this sentence structure seems reasonable to you, then would you say “The...

Um……. I beg to differ. If Iam correct, the height in this case is a collective non-countable noun which should be “is”, not “are”. “The difference between love and hate is separated by a thin line”. If this sentence structure seems reasonable to you, then would you say “The height of Peter...

Hello MrP So I can only assume that either Dickens got his idiom slightly wrong, or ‘Child as he was’ had a simple complementary sense in his day. I feel your sense that children are not immune to hunger and misery is very modern one. Children of poor social classes in Dickens' times would be...