The number of of takes plural as usual When we are talking about amounts and quantities we usualyy use singular determiners, verbs and pronouns even if the noun is plural. Where is the five pounds I lent you? Twenty miles is a long way to walk.

Care must be taken while using nouns linked with and . If nouns are treated as separate things, plural verb must take place. Tea and cofee are the most popular drinks. __ Sometimes, some expressions joined by and have singular determiners, verbs

It occurs to me that making the nouns singular forces the use of an article. For example, "...chanted slogans" is okay but it has to be "..chanted a/the slogan." Similarly, in Mr. Tom's example "...barricaded

Can the above definition also be extended to countable plural nouns? No. Countable plural nouns do not require a determiner. Example: Bills keep piling up on my desk. I must pay them some day! How many kinds of determiners are there in English?

Am I seriously wrong if I tell her that SINGULAR REGULAR NOUNS (I'm not talking about proper nouns, plural nouns, or pronouns) DO NOT START SENTENCES, but follow an article or a word like "some," "one," "that,"

Russian is a highly inflected language, having as I recall, 6 cases with different endings for singlar and plural.Adjectives are similarly inflected. Ah! OK. Then you probably recall the Russian "instrumental case". In English "with

Is the "that" a determiner or relative pronoun? A determiner goes with the following noun. What is the noun following that ? reactions . A plural noun. The determiners that and this are singular; they go only with singular nouns. these

1a) We painted the red door. 1b) We painted the door red. 1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb

Ok, I've been thinking about it, and this is the best analysis I can come up with. Any has two major meanings: 1) Any = Some , like a kind of partitive, a determiner like "some". Used in negative sentences, questions, and parts of

Hmmm. I thought that a + singular countable noun was the same as zero article + plural countable noun. You're absolutely right. The original sentence may have led the hobbits to go looking for others' dirty hands to wash because