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conversation: mistakes

Dear teachers, Would you please help me correct this sentence? He has an appropriate knowledge and way of thinking that helps him have a sensible conversation. These are my views: vocabulary: a) is "appropriate" wrong here and should be replaced by "sufficiant" ? b) is...

Re: adjective phrases

Hello Anonymous,In your sentences there is no adjective phrases.A phrase is a name used in the english grammar to label a group of words which acts as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence,which means that you need at least two words to label some part of the sentence a phrase. Words,phrases...

Re: Which sentence is correct?

NO NO! We know - the verb know goes with the subject We The "surround/surrounds" has to with enthusiasm and excitement. If you think of them as one thing, one strongly linked emotion, you can use the singular surrounds. All of the answers posted here so far consider them as two...

Re: plural & singular of "COPY"

Hi, If you send a form to somebody for filling in, it doesn't matter whether it is a copy or not. Whatever means used to produce the copy (photocopying, printing on a printer, etc.) is immaterial. As long as I need to sign on it and you accept it, I regard it as the original. If the said...

Re: What is the plural of "euro"?

In English the plural of Euro is also Euro. This is the case in northern Ireland and Eire and those who make reference to "Euros (sic.)" are often the same people who use the word "pound" to refer to one or many of same, e.g.: "That'll be four pound, nine...

Re: Plural or singular adjective?

Hey, my wife is from Anori! I'd say it depends on what you're planning to do in the workshop. Since I've never heard the expression, I can't say which is more common. If you mean the workshop is generated by questions - totally open to questions - I'd call it a...

Re: subject-verb agreement

Welcome to EF, ganeshRange is indeed the key word in the grammatical subject but English is very flexible with regard to examples like yours even though many people who have nothing better to do delight in arguing about them endlessly. Both singular and plural verbs are often possible. Just use...

Re: standard word count

Hi Jackson, There may be a technical problem. There are many cases in your text where two words are run together without a space between. I hear, "Your figures are sound," but I'm not sure it says what you're looking for here. How about, "authoritative...

Re: Kindly help with the struture of sentences

In th 3rd sentence you said that as slides is plural so verb should be throw. Kindly correct me if I am wrong but in this sentence subject is this CD, and verb needs to agree with the subject so i though it shall be throws instead of throw. Regards

Re: respective + nouns

The quantity of workers is correct. Incidently, I would say, "The log is shaped by the first and second workers respectively." Edit. Perhaps I misunderstood. If you're asking if "worker" should be plural, for instance, in your first example, I'd say YES, but, you...