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Choose the right answer : Some medicines have side ( effects-affects)on the body Pollution may (cause- reason) extinction. What is the (reason- cause) of the fire? What's the( reason –cause )for coming late? Your destination is the place you are (going to- coming form ). ...

hello! i know everyone here is so helpful. Forgive my ignorance, but could you tell me what should be the proper verb to use in the following: 1) Half the number of votes (was/were) counted accordingly. 2) All (is/are) excited to watch the football game. 3) All the actors (is/are)...

Anonymous wrote: Following that 'There are a lot of people' is correct, is the following correct? "There are an immense number of people there" I would use 'is', as 'number' is singular "The way the football teams played WAS/WERE immense " The subject being 'the way', it takes a...

Hi Crazy-- I finally got here. I have added some comments in brackets after underlined 'problems': Do Sports and Drugs Mix? Since the dawn of time years while playing football and was the quarter back of our team. Everyone thought he was going to make it to the NFL but during our...

Not at all, Rolebra – there are plenty of strong disagreements on this site! They keep things ticking over. Although BrE speakers tend towards plural verbs with collective nouns (e.g. football teams, companies), a hefty minority will always choose the singular. But even amongst those, 'number...

1a. That's not the man I married, these days he will sit in front of the telly for hours watching football. 1b. At the beginning of our relationship, he would write some romantic letters for me, he would send me flowers every day. 3a. I can swim the distance of 400m in 90 seconds! ...

Hi Camilus, You've given me a lot of homework. it weighs on my back, but it never is the last straw. Fortunately, my back is strong enough. I Appositives vs. Parenthetical Element a) Neil Armstrong, the first man who walked on the moon, is a native of Ohio. Here, “the first man who...