Thanks for your comments and reply to my queries. Your answers certainly erased some of my doubts toward the subject. What do you think of the following: 1) This is a list of medications which clinically show/ shows steady improvement on

Hi GG, I think the area of confusion, or "doubts" if you will, exists in situations where a "quantifier" is used in front of a plural noun. Correct me if I am wrong. Fifty percent - is a unit of something, and it's

The noun after "one of" is always plural. friend s in this case. I can't think of an exception. CJ

I think it's because the verb agrees with "all I wanted", and for some reason that needs a singular verb. However, sometimes you might find that someone also uses a plural verb if a plural noun follows: All I needed was/were two

English presents a number of issues to non-native (and sometimes native) speakers. It is grammatically unlike other languages, even those from which it has borrowed large vocabulary groups, and possesses a number of irregularities. Understanding

1 Form the plural. 2 Add an apostrophe. 3 If the ending is now s', stop. 4 Otherwise add s. boy 1 boys 2 boys' 3 STOP Answer: boys' person 1 people 2 people' 3 No s'. 4 people's Answer: people's child 1 children 2

hi, In my reply, I want to say 2 things. 1: I misunderstand that MSc and BSc are adjective only. I don't know they can be nouns. thanks 2: someone told me that "I have a BSc and an MSc degrees in economics" "I have ( 2 things

Hello, Pleasehelp, How many pieces of T-shirts do you want? is decidedly ungrammatical: *pieces of T-shirts is a partitive construction (featuring partition in respect of quantity). The partitive a piece of is used with words denoting an

Dear friend, both a correct, but the first option is generally more common among British English speakers. The choice of the pronoun largely depends on your intention: if you wish to speak of a class as a number of individuals, you should resort

The Class took their examinations in two separete rooms. Or The Class took its examinations in two separete rooms. Which one is correct? In my opinion first one seemed to be correct. But then read somewhere that class is a collective noun and