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Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

Hi Avangi, It is a proper word according to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

Hello teachers! I have more here to be grammar checked. Even I was sure about the grammar, there used to be the wrong grammar. Thanks in advance! B. Discovering grammar Example 5 and 6 shows that students are encouraged to work out for themselves how language forms are constructed and used....

4) Instead of "in this order", it might sound better as "in that order" The rule for #5 is: The conjunction or does not conjoin (as and does): when nor or or is used the subject closer to the verb determines the number of the verb. (From the dictionary) Usage Note: When all...

Liat, I don’t think the correct answer should be dependent on the number of student based on the original question which was only 5% of the students are placed after completion of their training . Clearly, the subject is the percentage which is “5%”, not the student; if my understanding is...

In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

Google is a handy tool, but you definitely have to look at and evaluate what it spits out at you. My favorite example is the search results Google gives you for the grammatically incorrect phrase " look forward to see ". If you went by the number of hits alone, you might well be misled into...

Belly wrote: There seem to be some problems There seems to be a problem Are they correct? I've never understood why, in these constructions, the very impersonal verb "there seem(s)" should be dictated as to number by what follows. However, these sound quite natural to me, probably...

Whether an expression is number transparent shouldn't vary depending on whether agreement is "from the left" or "from the right". Are you finding cases where that's so? (The only agreement with the verb on the left is the there construction, isn't it? Is that what you mean?) I don't think...

Hamza wrote: Which is the correct construction? A number of people like ice-cream. A number of people likes ice-cream. I was confused because if we are talking about number than it should be likes.. Right??? Use a plural verb after "A number of ... " Use a singular verb after "The...