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Maple wrote: There are bugs in English grammar systems while handing number problems, as I observed, but as for this very sentence, I vote for know . Hi, I'd personally say I'm one of those kids who think , too. I only wanted to say that, if native speakers and writers choose to use both and...

CalifJim wrote: There is are a lot of question s which need/ needs to be answered. 1 There was / were was a great deal of confusion s at that moment….. 2 There was were a few among us who still believe d /believes that …… 3 ___________________ 1 'a lot of' is...

Alienvoord wrote: I'm not so sure that it's used consciously. I've never thought about it consciously before. This is the same construction as I haven't seen her in five days. I haven't seen her in two years. I haven't seen her in about eight weeks. I haven't seen her in around four months. I...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an...

From Merriam Webster's : AIN'T Etymology: contraction of are not 1 : am not : are not : is not 2 : have not : has not 3 : do not : does not : did not -- used in some varieties of Black English Usage: Although widely disapproved as nonstandard and more common in the habitual speech of...

Hi, this is just a cut & paste job from various internet resources: 1 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 2 The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar 3 Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 4 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (7 parts) 5 Pocket Fowler's...