I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t

Dear Marina, I am glad you care a lot for English plural forms of nouns. You are probably learning English as a Second Language. The noun police is followed by a plural verb because it is a very big group of people. For one Individual, we talk of

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in

Anon, why do you come to a thread that is old to do nothing but essentially insult people? The people who post here are volunteers. Some of us are teachers of English as a second language, some of us are professional writers. Our "credentials"

To me, a person learning English as a second language, 'statuses' seems a form more rational than 'stati' as the plural of 'status'. I would like to say even 'spaghettuses'. paco

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100

Hi Melaine! Although i am learning english as a second language, i will try to explain your problem. Well your problem is related to "Subject-verb agreement". In every sentence subject and verb should agree with each other. Remember that Have is