Pleasehelp: Many usage experts explain that "public" takes a singular verb in American English; a plural verb in British English. You will also notice this with other words, such as "government."

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In following paragraph,which I quoted from the book, "Principles of economics", I think the verb in "that was the main" should be were not was. Am I right? The energy crisis of the 1970s, too, was blamed on nature's

why is "two of us IS here" correct? It is not correct. There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the side chat that Marius and I had earlier in this thread. The confusion is due to a misinterpretation of a few joking remarks that

American or British, "a group" of anything is always singular in my book. collective noun ( grammar ) a singular noun, such as 'committee' or 'team, that refers to a group of animals, people or things, and, in BrE, can be

I read in : A practical English Grammar page 67 Neither of them knows the way,do they? they say after niether of , we use singular verb so, which is correct: Neither of you have done anything or Neither of you has done anything

...........as I am....."My brother" is the subject in a sentence in which the verb is "is." The end of the sentence "as....I(am)." -- If you google the verb to be, you will get much advice; hopefully some of it will

According to some english gramma book, It is said that "what clause " can be the subject of the sentence and it is considered as a single entity , so it take singular verb. eg. What he referred to makes me want to follow up.

And what is the rule? The rule, which in English isn't of course always adhered to, is that a singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural su bject takes a plural verb : My friend speak s English. My friend s speak English.

Snappy: There are many translations of the Bible. I love the King James version because of its poetic expressiveness. But, as others have posted, it is written in the contemporary English of 400 years ago. The English language has changed a lot