By Plurals, Colons

Amy and I left for the mall at 7 to get James a birthday cake. It was his 35th birthday. At the bakery shop, we had a hard time choosing from a wide selection of cakes. When I agreed to pick up a cake, I had thought it was a 20 minute (Is it missing an S?I was told not to use the plural when...

"hearts and minds" is a very popular fixed idiom these days re discussions of strategy in Iraq, and uses plurals in that case. Darcy's example implies that the American people may have a common soul, assuming the singular was used deliberately. The plurals of all three would refer...

Tbsukt wrote:1) A new year is at the open with new joys and new opportunities. As they always say, carpe Diem, seize the day! Live each day to the fullest but never forget to save some time for both your bodies and souls to rest.2) Your friendship and loyalty to one another inspires me. Cherish...

Hi, Where you have put semi-colons, I'd usually use commas. I have also suggested some other changes to your punctuation. My general advice is not to get into the habit of using semi-colons and colons. They can often make tyour meaning more obscure rather than more clear. You seem to have a...

Your first sentence is correct--"refinements" is plural. Your second example really consists of two sentences, but since both concern the same idea they could be written as one sentence--but with a semi-colon rather than a comma (since there is no conjunction).The subject of the second sentence...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these wordskilometercentimeterAre those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ?After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following setence by using the...

Cherrypie10 wrote:I can’t think of a better site name before so I’ve decided to name it after the two of my favorite dogs. Cherry and Pie are two of our family dogs, they're the oldest so they're the one whom I love the most.Is that correct? A semicolon keeps it from being a "run-on"...

Question 1Although the question has already been answered, I should like to comment on why arise is the correct choice. The subject of the clause should any difference arise is difference, which is singular and third person. One of the fundamental principles of English grammar is that the subject...

Sorry, Cogar-- you failed this one utterly.1-- can acquire and ensure2-- growth of income, spending power and population are 3 quite different things and difficult to conceive as a single concept, so the plural verb is needed: have.3-- Thus alone needs a semicolon before it, but enterprises is...