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Hi B A Below is for your information What is concord There must be grammatical logic or coherence in the links between parts of a sentence This is called agreement or concord EXAMPLES The boy is swimming singular subject singular verb form The boys are swimming plural subject plural verb form The...

The first one because actually I m not quite sure how to explain it Well a quick search on google for thing after thing was has about 100 results while thing after thing were has none Hmm As I understand it the only way to form a plural subject out of two singular nouns is to join them with the...

You must be googling in Mongolia Jack I get a million and a half hits for cars are and 900 000 for cars is The latter figure is explained by looking at the grammar of the hits the subject of cars is is not cars but a singular noun earlier in the sentences Cars is what I need is wrong As always a...

Hi it s me Ralf the starter of this thread Thanks for your answers so far A post in another thread pointed me to the American Heritage Book of English Usage where I found this section According to the standard rule when the pronoun there precedes a verb such as be seem or appear the verb agrees...

nq 1 Giles Todd Email Removed writes nq nq 2 I d leave out the parentheses Is there anything wrong with from the obvious schoolboy ambiguity Why are the parentheses necessary nq nq 1 I m surprised that you can advocate leaving out the parentheses when all you have is a single sentence taken out...