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as" followed by a plural noun at least a thousand times in books, magazines, newspapers, etc. Oh well, since you insist it's wrong, I guess I'll have to take your word for it. Still, it's depressing to realize how limited and inflexible the English language - or any language for...

Not to mention that the instructions said "Put ALL NOUNS in these phrases into the plural form." I believe leader is a noun. CJ

In a literal sense, I CAN NOT think of a case where "all" does NOT mean "everything". But grammatically, when the word "all" refers to countable nouns, it should be followed by a plural form of verb. Right? I am just puzzled by the choice of "all IS well"....

In (1) through (3) the noun remains singular. In (4), we omit both a noun and an article. It seems to be difficult to mentally supply both, and this has the effect of turning 'first and second' into a plural modifier. The phrase is then analogous to 'the two boys'. The...

Hi Taka: For the many nit-picking rules of grammar, it's best to check out a more authoritative site than just an informal discussion group. For collective nouns, indeed, there is a divergence in British English and American English. They say that Brits and Americans are two peoples divided...

In grammar, "an array" or "the array" are singular. "The arrays" is plural. Array is a countable noun. That is why they use the article "an" or pronoun "one" before "array", and the article "the" before "arrays". ...

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 teaches students how to ask for vocabulary words. ...

Haha, you gave me a funny picture in my head. If you told Paul to wash a weary face, he would probably be looking around for someone else's weary face to wash because you can't tell him to wash his own face that way; a tells the listener that we are being generic. If you wanted him to...

1. Would say this is natural in terms of grammar. I think I asked a similar question before and I think Mr. M said something like the construction like "a yellow and red pen" first brings up a notion of one pen with two different colors. They are divided over a spiritual and literal...

I can see no reason why the definite article should be used with youths. We know nothing about these youths and the reference is to no specific group of youths. If we use the before youths, logically it should be used with any plural noun in similar contexts: The cars were parked illegally in...