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Re: army vs military

Grammar Geek — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:53:08 GMT

Using my favorite online reference, www.m-w.com:

Main Entry: ²military Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural military also milÂ·iÂ·tarÂ·ies Date: 1709

1: military persons; especially : army officers THIS IS THE RESTRICTED VERSION - ARMY ONLY

2: armed forces THIS IS THE GENERAL VERSION - ALL ARMED FORCES

Main Entry: armed forces
Function: noun plural
: the combined military, naval, and air forces of a nation âcalled also armed services

And here's Army: 1 a: a large organized body of armed personnel trained for war especially on land b: a unit capable of independent action and consisting usually of a headquarters, two or more corps, and auxiliary troops coften capitalized : the complete military organization of a nation for land warfare

I don't know why you thought that army, strictly speaking, referred only the infantry, but you can see that it does say "especially on land" so perhaps that confused you.

A soldier is anyone who serves in the amry. It doesn't matter what his or her job is.

Re: "Everything have to go!" ...or... "Everything has to go!"

Clive — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:58:35 GMT

Hi,

Dailymail wrote... "Kerry Katona stuffs her face with a burger and Coke"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1023053/Kerry-Katona-stuffs-face-burger-Coke--resorts-sucking-belly.html

The Register wrote... "MetaRAM double stuffs servers with memory"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/weber_metaram/

The ABC wrote... "Stereotype stuffs up women's driving"

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/24/2197632.htm

Now I'm sure the meaning of "stuffs" is different here, but... a wrong word??? As pointed out earlier, 'stiffs' is a valid form of the verb 'stuff'. The above examples involve verbs.

On to the next subject.

The Florida Institute of Technology wrote this...

"When you have a will, doesn't everything have to go through the courts in a public way?" 'Have' here is the bare infinitive verb form.

Everything does have to go through the courts. (correct, with singular form of the auxiliary verb 'do')
Everything do have to go through the courts. (incorrect, with plural form of the auxiliary verb 'do')

http://www.fit.edu/support/planned.html

And the government of Australia wrote this...

"Accordingly, so long as a defect can be remedied by amendment, the informations are not âvoidâ in the sense that..." 'Informations' here seems like a technical, legal word, almost a form of legal jargon. Use it if you're a lawyer, particularly in Australia.

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Supreme_Court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_howie020807

Best wishes, Clive

Re: have vs has question

Clive — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:21:11 GMT

Hi,

An enemy that is being detained does not (have/has) any rights. The writer of this sentence needs to have a look at the Geneva Conventions.

Have = plural

has = singular The inflection is in the auxiliary 'does'. Use 'have ' as the base verb..

Does the -have- refer to the rights or the enemy as the subject? The subject is 'an enemy'.

Also my second question, what is the difference in

1. An enemy that is detained When they catch him, 'he is detained (by his captors)'. After that, he is in a state of 'being detained'.

2. An enemy that is being detained

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Bilingual

Cool Breeze — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:06:07 GMT

Anonymous
Websters is more of a descriptive dictionary. Cambridge and Oxford are prescriptive. I think that explains why Webster's has it as a noun. As our language evolves (becomes degraded), the more we'll find things in Websters that aren't widesly accepted by grammarians.

I agree with your analysis regarding the character of the two dictionaries. If change equal degradation, English was ruined hundreds of years ago. There are countless examples of that: the use of the auxiliary do in questions and negations, the use of s as a nearly universal plural ending, the use of which and who as relative pronouns etc. Also, more than 99 percent of modern English spellings are incorrect compared with what they were 1200 years ago. The language is completely corrupt if we accept the premise that change equals degradation.

The funny thing is that most people don't consider past changes bad, only those that happen in their lifetime. I fail to understand the logic behind that reasoning.

Re: sentences correct?

Feebs11 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:05:41 GMT

Solomon_13000 wrote:
Are the sentences below correct in terms of the use of preposition and so on in italic?

Preposition

Neither Amy nor her sisters like to do ironing every week.

He is like his mother

He is always like that

Besides working at the restaurant, he also works at the garage.

He is watching TV besides eating

Everyone besides Jane went to the birthday party

The ferry departs at hourly interval.intervals

I stay at my parents' house

He wasnât at home last night

John was accused of stealing the box of coins.

John is the son of Jacob

I knew him since January of last year

Verb

Miss Wong came early to make coffee for everyone, didnât she?

There are things we didnât know until John told us

He didnât study yet he passed in his exams passed his exams

The naughty boy was running at that time, wasnât he?

I wasnât hungry just now

He wasnât accepted for the job

I shall Madam Andrea in Scotland after my examinations. incomplete - have you missed out part of your verb?

I shall visit my aunty next week

After lunch we shall visit the school

John decided to go to the library and borrow some books.

John plans to borrow some money from the bank

It is not a good habit to borrow something from people

The musical concerts will be held in Germany next year.

The elections will be held by December

He will be held responsible for the incident

Neither of the girls are keen on taking up sewing.

They are having their dinner

They are cleaning the house

Aaron usually drinks milk but yesterday he asked for tea instead.

He drinks a lot of water

He drinks water from the tap

Harry, like his brother, is a good athlete.

He is washing his car

He is pressing the wrong button

Either of the shirts looks good on you.

It looks like he is searching for something

He looks handsome

Adverb

Kim does not want to join us for dinner as she has already ~~taken~~ hers. eaten OR had

He has already ~~taken~~ his lunch eaten OR had

The building is already completed

Since you are not the culprit, you should not be worried about the interrogation.

Since yesterday there was no rain at all Ungrammatical>>There has been no rain at all since yesterday.

I have worked for the company since the 1990s.

It is the most exciting movie I have seen

That is the most attractive colour

Most people love shopping

Auxiliary Verb

Everyone in my family has a mobile phone.

It's a car that has air bags

The cat has run away

I usually have my dinner at half past seven in the evening.

I have studied today

I have slept this afternoon

Relative pronoun

No matter what she did or said, he would not forgive her.

He really enjoys what he does best

He only does what is right in life

This is the girl whom we were talking about.

The man whom you met is my friend

This is the person to whom I sent my job application

Conjunction

The pant was uncomfortable so Jack refused to wear it. "pants" = trousers - always in the plural.

He was hungry so he ate some food

It rained so I did not go out today

Re: to be

Goodman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:15:19 GMT

Anonymous wrote:

Hi,

I hope everyone is well this morning!

I know that the following sentence is correct:

'There have been problems'

However, I'm unsure of what to do when 'to be' is being used...

1) There has/have to be toys (plural) in the room

2) There has/have to be people in the room

(And on a similar note)

3) There needs/need to be changes made

Any help would be appreicated.

Thanks

Hi People,

Ok first, I like to point out that âthereâ by itself has no singular or plural significance. Itâs the âverb to beâ which follows that determines itâs singularity or plurality.

Observe:

1) Everyday, there are thousands of cars using The Golden Gate Bridge.

2) There is s bus stop around the corner.

3) There are geological data which lead us to believe an earthquake measuring 8.0 or higher on the Rictor scale will strike northern California in the next 30 years.

When âthereâ is used in conjunction with âhasâ and âhaveâ, depending on which one, the âverb to beâ and the noun must also conform to the context.

i.e.

âThere has to be a reasonâ¦â¦. Not reasons

âThere have to be books somewhere in this placeâ. Not book

âThere Have To Be Better Optionsâ not option

However, with auxiliary words, i.e. should, could, may, must etcâ¦, it can be either plural or singular.

âThere must be someone / people shopping in the area at the time who saw the accidentâ. Note that singularity and plurality function just as well in the context.

There could be other reasons â¦.Note the plural context

There may be another reasonâ¦.Note the singular context.

Are there anymore questions?

Re: Auxiliary verbs

Yankee — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:44:02 GMT

Hi Pucca

You can say something such as "There were millions of dollars lost." But, if you want to say or write a specific number, then the words hundred, thousand, million, billion, etc. are not used as a plural noun:

300 = three hundred
4000 = four thousand
50,000 = fifty thousand
20,000,000 = twenty million

A "zero conditional" is a conditional sentence in which the result is usually or always true if the condition is fulfilled. For example:

If you heat water to 100Â°C, it boils.

Re: Transformational Rules and Subject-Verb Agreement

Cool Breeze — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:09:38 GMT

Active: The officer has captured the subjects.
The officer: subject
has: auxiliary perfect tense verb in 3rd person singular since officer is a singular noun
captured: past participle, needed for the perfect tense
the subjects: object of has captured

Passive: The subjects have been captured by the officer.
The subjects: grammatical subject of the sentence, in actual fact still of course the object of the verb capture
have: auxiliary perfect tense verb in 3rd person plural since subjects is a plural noun
been: past participle of be, needed for the perfect tense of be; reflects the original tense
captured: past participle of capture, needed because the verb is in the passive voice
by the officer: agent of the passive sentence, formed from the subject of the active sentence and naturally still indicates who did the job of capturing the subjects

Unfortunately this is the only passive of English and therefore may occasionally cause confusion. Its structure, however, is very simple.

Cheers
CB

Re: Can anyone help about argument essay?

Doll — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:34:27 GMT

Hi,

First of all, write a headline to your essay because the effect of gap between rich and poor is the subject of the argumentative esssay it is not a headline.In your first paragraph you don't tell us what you will talk about I mean, there is a gap between them but what kind of a gap is this?It is obvious that you are talking about negative effects but you talk about different effects e.g. one of them is social one then you tell us about econmomy and health.It will be better if you choose one of them or else it wil be a kind of research paper rather than an argumentative essay.One more thing, be careful about singular-plural paralellism and the choice of auxiliary verb.

Re: the use of attempting

pieanne — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:48:03 GMT

Question 1:

B sounds correct, but what do the sentences mean?

Question 2:

The sentence is definitely wrong: 1st, the subject of "does" is "activities" - a plural, so you should change it to "do". 2nd, if you use "do" as an auxiliary, there must be a main verb, like "apply to". You can't replace "does" by "is", because you want a plural there; so it should be "are".