By Expressions, Singular nouns

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...

Liveinjapan wrote:large amountsbig amountsmany amountsmuch amountsa little amountsa few amounts ThanksLiJ Large amounts is fine; big amounts is grammatical but I don't think natives use it very much; many amounts is grammatical but unidiomatic - to be avoided; much amounts and a little...

Mister Micawber wrote:Here where I live, we deal with those kinds of incidents almost EVERY DAY. Kind has two plurals, the old unchanged kind and the newer kinds. The original plural can still be used in the expressions these/those kind of:" —Usage. The phrase THESE (or THOSE) KIND OF, followed...

There is no difference in the agreement rules whether you use "a majority of" or "the majority of". These expressions are almost always followed by a plural noun and a plural verb, thus: The majority of Americans believe ... A majority of Brazilians say ... The majority of students think...

English_Learner wrote: Philip wrote:...but I'll give a few examples. Philip, may I ask you a qeustion? I know the article 'a' is used with a singular noun but I've heard (and used) many time the expression 'to give a few examples'.The noun 'exsamples' is plural, so my question is: why the...

Philip wrote:...but I'll give a few examples. Philip, may I ask you a qeustion? I know the article 'a' is used with a singular noun but I've heard (and used) many time the expression 'to give a few examples'.The noun 'exsamples' is plural, so my question is: why the article 'a' is used in this...

So with expressions such as "a number of", "a lot of" and "the rest of", is it singular or plural? Now I am really curious.It is not a matter of whether those expressions are singular or plural. They are neither, in the sense that verb agreement does not depend on them at all. Verb agreement...

1. I understand the/a variable noun is uncount when use in a general sense and is a count noun when it refers to a particular instance of something. OK, and I think they can sometimes be used interchangeably like some of these below. Can you check if they can be used interchangeably? 1. exposed...

whole is typically used only with a singular noun. You can use entire as a substitute for whole. It indicates that every part of something is involved. I ate the whole thing. I ate the entire thing. (every part of the thing) And that's the whole story. And that's the entire story. (every...

Hi, It's sometimes confusing me whether a certain noun is countable. For example, the "bunk beds", as far as I know it can't be a singular noun just like the word " police". But what if I want to say in a bed store, I want two of them("Please don't tell me, I indicate the bed, and say ' I want...