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Hello HT, Hoa Thai wrote: My old note stated: ' a number of ' is plural and 'the number of' is singular. We can apply this logic of yours to 'a number of ' too, right? 1. ?There is a number of reasons why my post may be misleading. 2. There are a number of reasons why my post...

Grammar Geek wrote: In your example, with the slight change to I had some little alterations made, it sounds fine to me. Hi GG Your sentence sounds fine to me as well. I think the original poster didn't quite know how to ask the question he/she wanted to ask. That is obvious from his/her...

Maverick9211 wrote: I can ' t differeniate between abt n oun s , v erb s , a djective s , a dverb s , etc . I am not very bad at E nglish. I do understand E nglish very well. I can speak English, but n ot in fluen tly. I can't write it very well. L et ' s make do it this...

Obviously, depending on where we learned English, it has some bearing on our understanding toward some of the most common debated questions. To validate my own understanding, I did some searching and came to a conclusion, In the US, some experts agree that either singular or plural is...

1. Why are there no articles in front of the words "legislature" and "parliament"? A majority is the difference between the number of votes or seats in parliament and legislature that the winner gets in an election, and the number ... 2. When you are listing things after a colon, are you...

I am not infatuated with the software that runs this site. Often I cannot post a message. I wrote a lengthy response to this, and then suddently everything disappeared. I think that this second writup will be shorter. Forbes wrote: Imagine a language in which: “The man hit...

Imagine a language in which: “The man hit the table with a stick” is “Copoloteko tipadela tisadure asutariki bu.” In this sentence co = a classifier indicating that we are talking about something animate polo = man te = a nominative case marker ko = the speaker wishes to...

How To Learn English ? PART 2 Learning a language is mainly based upon self-struggle. Maybe the only thing to be done by the teachers on this subject is to advise a method. Because, in a sense, language cannot be taught but learned. So, it’s suitable that the students are shown ways...

Clive wrote: Now, let's look at non-countable nouns. eg More rain will fall tomorrow . or More work always brings more success . How to say these things with 'more of'? There are other syntaxes, too. eg Mary is more beautiful than Jane. Everyday, Tom loves her more . How do you suggest we say...

Hello Clive I am interested in Shirley's question. At first I thought that the use of "more of" in Shirley's sentence might come from a syntactic restriction that two determiners ("more" and "their" in the Shirley's sentence) cannot be put before a noun. And I thought there might be no semantic...