By Plurals, Determiners

Re: has / have

It's the same in BrE; either a singular or a plural verb can be used after 'family'. My family was/were in Orchard Road last Sunday.

Re: has / have

You need some sort of determiner before "meal." In the U.S., we generlaly use a singular verb for family, but would still use "their" in the plural. The dining area is where the family has/eats their meals.

Re: Kindly eplain which sentence is right?

You have no determiner in front of annual contribution(s), so it has to be plural. That makes 2 and 4 wrong.If you have only one investment plan (the usual arrangement), use 1. If you have more than one, use 3.CJ

Part of Speech identification

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...

Re: How does "the" modify plurals followed by relative clauses?

A. She talked to the students who failed the test. (Am I referring to some of the students who failed, or all (the?) students who failed?) All who failed. B. She talked to students who failed the test. (Am I referring to all (the?) students who failed, or have I incorrectly omitted...

Re: Plural or singular?

Y and Z records means Y record and Z record. Singular countable nouns cannot occur without a determiner in English. (the is a determiner.) So you need something that means the Y record and the Z record. CJ

such

Hi, I think the usual recommendation regarding the usage of the word 'the' is that use 'such' with 'a', 'an' or write in the plural form for the countable nouns and don't use any determiners for the uncountable nouns like this: such an apple such apples such nature But according to the...

Re: Pls check grammar and coherence

You have problems with determiners, plurals, verb tenses, prepositions and general grammatical structure. I've corrected the first paragraph for you and highlighed problems in the second. In the second paragraph you have started inserting a space before commas, which is incorrect. The government...

Re: a large number of

Inchoateknowledge wrote:"depending on how I interpret" -- you mean I have the choice to adjust the verb form to the notion the subject suggests to me? and that it is a matter of taste? Invitations is the subject, thus, strictly speaking, only plural verb form is okay here. This is what I call...

Re: adjectives for uncountable nouns

1. all discussion - yes 2. all discussions - yes 3. most of discussion - no 'most of the discussion'. 4. much discussion - yes 5. a little discussion - yes but I don't think that is what you meant. This would be a specific short discussion. little discussion without the determiner would be...