By Countable nouns, Verbs

Re: Is the sentence structure right?

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...

Re: Experience

2 - I would make that "experience" as the mass noun, not the countable noun. But if you have a reason for wanting it to be a plural use of the countable form, then certainly use "are," which is not an auxiallary verb, but the main verb.

Re: Please check my para..

Is it more idiomatic to say "the quality of life"? both women, not only strive to ...Is a verb missing here? maybe "DO not only...but also" designing beautiful kitchen , Also, kitchen is a countable noun, so I think an article is missing.

Mistakes made by Chinese Learners

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Re: Questions

May I use the 'ING' form with any verb to create adjectives or nouns? No. The adjective 'Telephonic' has it an adverb to be 'Telephonically'? Yes. When I can use 'The', 'a', 'an' before nouns? An extremely broad question. A and an are usually not...

noun and article

Hi, 1. I am not that familiar with the words like the one here where it seems to stem from a verb? Are there many nouns like this? Give it a shove-off a steep hill 2. Why is there no article in front of the word 'committee'? It was Mr. Lee, who prevented the bill from getting out...

Re: Noun for "hair"

Hi, I am wondering whether " She has a long hair." or "She keeps a long hair" are correct concord in grammar? Can hair be used with "a". Please shed some lights. Urgent please because i need to explain it to my students. Say 'She has long hair'. Keep is...

Re: the "f" rule for plurals

My dictionary says that beef is uncountable when you mean the meat. So, there is no plural. However, there are two plural forms for "beef" for other meanings.1. Beef - an adult cow raised for its meat. The plural is beeves.2. Beef - (slang) a complaint, an argument or dispute. The...

Subject verb agreement

Please kindly indicate the correct answers for the following questions and justifications to the answers. 1. They do these things so quietly that nobody is ever sure of what (is/ are) happening. 2. Various kinds of food (has /have) been already been prepared. Come and help yourself to...

a fuzzling 'all'?

The land stretching away to the left all belongs to Mrs. Thomson. ========================================================= I think 'land' is a countable noun and thus 'belongs' is a correct form as the verb of the sentence. And yet I don't know what the word 'all' does mean on the...