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Re: Three out of every four automobile owners in the U.S also own a bicyle

Avangi — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:02:12 GMT

Kprasadreddy
Three out of every four automobile owners in the U.S also own a bicyle

One out of every four automobile owners in the U.S also owns a bicyle

Kprasadreddy
Thanks but can you explain the grammar behind it?

In your first example, "three" is the subject of the sentence. The prepositional phrase "out of etc." modifies "three." The plural subject requires the plural verb, "own."

The subject of your second sentence is "one," which is singular and takes the singular verb "owns."

The separate issue, "bicycle(s)," is something I'm not sure about. If you say "'Three people own a bicycle," it could be interpreted to mean that they all share in the ownership of a single bicycle. In the present example, context would rule that out; but "Three people own bicycles," could mean that A owns one, B owns one, and C owns five - equals seven bicycles all together. (You might argue that that doesn't matter.)

Best regards, - A.

Re: articles

Mr Wordy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:10:32 GMT

"Food" can be countable ("a food", "many foods") or uncountable ("some food", "a lot of food"). The countable sense is used to refer to a particular type of food, or, in the plural, several different types. The uncountable sense means food considered as a general "substance", without particular regard to the varieties it can come in.

My job is to protect fish, vegetables and food from going bad.

This sentence is poorly written in my opinion. It reads as if fish and vegetables are not food. It should be:

My job is to protect fish, vegetables and other foods from going bad.

"other foods" means "other types of food", which is the sense wanted here.

I am a box in which foods, medications, and chemicals are kept cool.

In this sentence, either "food" or "foods" will do. To me, "food" is better, since there is no need here to emphasise that food comes in different varieties.

I use many creams/oils/detergents.

This is fine. The same concept applies: "a cream" is one type of cream; "creams" means several types of cream. Similarly for the others.

Re: Plural for Curriculum Vitae

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:54 GMT

Yes, it is correct to use the plural form of curriculum vitae as CVs. Curriculum = pl. Curricula.

Regards,
Vezha Vendan M.P.

a felicity with words

Jackson6612 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:00:45 GMT

What does the bold parts mean?

felicity
3: a pleasing manner or quality especially in art or language <a felicity with words>

compliment
2 plural: best wishes: REGARDS <accept my compliments> <compliments of the season>

[Definitions from M-W's Col. Dic]

conversation: mistakes

Hela — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:31:14 GMT

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 "way of thinking" wrong here and should be replaced by "common sense" ? c) what verbs can be used with "conversation" : to have, lead, conduct, something else ?

grammar: a) is it possible to use the article before "appropriate knowledge" even though "knowledge" is uncountable ? b) should the verb "help" be in the singular or plural ?

Are there other mistakes ?

Regards

Re: adjective phrases

Velimir — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:09:33 GMT

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 and clauses are three building blocks of speech and proper distinction between these elements is an essential step and the starting point in every analysis.
Adjective phrase consists of the head of the phrase,i.e adjective, and various pre-modifying and postmodifying elements.For example,

It is too hot for this time of the year.

In this sentence the whole phrase "too hot for this time of the year" is an adjective phrase which functions as a subject complement. We could say this same in a brief manner :

It is hot.

but we felt like we wanted:

1. to accentuate the meaning of hot by premodifying the head "hot" with the intensifying adverb "too"

2. and also to specify that we refer our assertion to some particular part of the year

Therefore,you get adjective phrases when you're trying to convey more information about what you mean or feel about the matter in question.

The first sentence you've quoted for example should be analysed like:

1. Carnivores are eaters of meat.

Carnivores - plural form of noun ,acts as the subject of the sentence

are - linking verb

Eaters of meat - noun phrase ,acts as a subject complement

The other two sentences follow the same syntactic pattern : subject -> linking verb -> subject complement

Best regards

Re: Which sentence is correct?

Grammar Geek — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:32:15 GMT

Creativeguru
Surround is correct as verb agrees to subject 'we' but not to noun

Regards,

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 emotions, so it takes the plural, surround.

Re: plural & singular of "COPY"

Pter — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:59:54 GMT

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 Form A is a record of something signed by the sender, that would be another story.

Re: What is the plural of "euro"?

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:08:33 GMT

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 pence". Whilst I work in a banking institution and (believe it or not) am not allowed to recirculate our style guide for memos or publications; I can confidently say that finding someone who said "Euros" whilst working in a bank would be viewed in as dim a light as finding someone counting on their fingers. Kind regards, Ratz.

Re: Plural or singular adjective?

Avangi — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:36:05 GMT

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 "questions workshop." If it's a workshop on the subject of how to conceive and phrase a question, I'd think "question workshop."

Sorry, Ovidio, I didn't see your post number. Congratulations and thanks for joining us. WELCOME TO THE FORUMS ! ! !

Best regards, - A.

P.S. Perhaps someone in our ESL community already knows what a "question(s) workshop" is. (They'll probably tell me it's a compound noun.)