By Expressions, Plurals

My try: As it was obvious that I broke the rule, all my excitement disappeared into the thin air and a loom of fear immediately overtook me. My elder brother and my cousin had already begun searching for me. At last they found me on the way -- to where?? . With a lantern on (in) his hand, my...

StartFragment> In 'figure' article in a dicitonary, 'a head for figures' come up two times and 6 figures • a natural ability with figures 8 a person in a painting or a model of a person: • the figure in the background • A Head for Figures I want to know what 'a...

StartFragment> In 'figure' article in a dicitonary, 'a head for figures' come up two times and 6 figures • a natural ability with figures 8 a person in a painting or a model of a person: • the figure in the background • A Head for Figures I want to know what 'a...

Do you want some more examples? I can give you a lot! You won't believe it! Yeah, the net is a mess.As Jim said, in some languages hair is plural (mine too, and that's why I tend to make that mistake and use the plural). But on the other hand, optilang showed you how a certain...

That is interesting indeed and I agree with you Old Man Gordon. I am from Finland and according to my Finnish-English dictionary I should say "Finland is leading 2-0" without using the plural verb and"The Finns are leading 2-0" when using a plural expression. But I guess...

That is interesting indeed and I agree with you Old Man Gordon. I am from Finland and according to my Finnish-English dictionary I should say "Finland is leading 2-0" without using the plural verb and"The Finns are leading 2-0" when using a plural expression. But I guess this...

The first one should be:Do this book and that one give the same information, or do they differ?The second one is said that way even though it seems wrong if you think of any as singular. With expressions like any of you, agreement is often with the plural you instead of the singular any.CJ

Something to chew on:THE NOTION OF STANDARD SPOKEN GRAMMAR The term ‘standard grammar’ is most typically associated with written language,and is usually considered to be characteristic of the recurrent usage of adult,educated native speakers of a language. Standard grammar ideally reveals...

In the US we don't use the plural (holidays) to refer to a single holiday of several days, except for the expression "the holidays," which may or may not be a group of separate (but possibly contiguous) holidays. "I'm going home for the holidays." "I'll be...

Using a "by" to add that last part sure makes this confusing. Actually, the whole passage is. It sounds like women have only ONE channel of self-expression, which comes from having children - is that what you read too?