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Hi Anon The answer to your question Cna adjectives be plural is no English does not inflect adjectives for case number or gender agreement with the nouns they modify English does inflect nouns and pronouns for number not case or gender Cubs is a noun a proper name for a sports team I like the...

quote user Anonymous If you say a situation or person is hollow you could mean they have no real quote Hi I m not sure why you group a thing word in with all these people words The plural post reference for a singular term is only used to avoid the awkward gender issue In English things don t...

The important plural in your sentences is those People often misuse their as a singular and who may be either singular or plural If you wanted to express the same thought in the singular you might use the singular whoever in place of the plural those I feel sorry for whoever lacks faith in his...

quote user Mr Wordy This doesn t seem quite right The subject of this instance of is is Lewis Hamilton not expectation quote First I should apologize as Mr Wordy is exactly right Not sure how why I made a boneheaded mistake confusing the subjects Mea culpa Thank you for correcting that glaring...

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 rude...

English really needs another pronoun for cases like this Traditionally if the gender was unknown the masculine pronoun would be used In a grammar book from 50 years ago your examples would most certainly use his Today this would still be considered grammatically correct but might be considered...

You re correct their is plural It s becoming more acceptable however to use they their as a gender neutral pronoun

Hi Hblaw Space is the space between words when typing on the keyboard I see that a lot in high school level student s writing Gender mix up and plural to singular are the most common I had to work very hard to keep from making these mistakes You are right about he and she sharing the same pronoun...

Grammar Geek wrote Can t we just say that because English lacks a non gender specific singular third person personal pronoun that applies to people we don t like being called it and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful we sometimes use the plural form to avoid implying...

Can t we just say that because English lacks a non gender specific singular third person personal pronoun that applies to people we don t like being called it and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful we sometimes use the plural form to avoid implying that the statement...