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singular noun third person singular verb The bucket lies exists on the floor plural noun third person plural verb The glasses lie exist stay on that stand A

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...

Abil Yes you are correct in formal usage This may help clear any doubts http crofsblogs typepad com english 2005 02 neither_or_eith htmlLaura asks How about using neither versus either I transcribe for doctors and this is one rule I just can t get straight in my head I need to figure out a way to...

Hi LiJ Perhaps you caught that error in my recent post It was illogical for me to write more than one options Since I made that error it is better for me to borrow this text from The American Heritage Book of English Usage to share with you Here s a riddle How can you have more than one and still...

Hello HT Hoa Thai wrote My old note stated a number of is plural and the number of is singular We can apply this logic of yours to a number of too right 1 There is a number of reasons why my post may be misleading 2 There are a number of reasons why my post may be misleading Though I do often...

Avangi wrote Good morning Hoa Thai I appreciate the research I think your second example is a little bit different but I m not sure I can explain it The gist of it is ten years ago you might have gotten one or two things while now you get twelve Since the verb is to be you can exchange the...

Good morning Hoa Thai I appreciate the research I think your second example is a little bit different but I m not sure I can explain it The gist of it is ten years ago you might have gotten one or two things while now you get twelve Since the verb is to be you can exchange the subject with the...

There is no difference in the agreement rules whether you use a majority of or the majority of These expressions are almost always followed by a plural noun and a plural verb thus The majority of Americans believe A majority of Brazilians say The majority of students think Once in a great while...

Well yes Spectacled G but I don t think native speakers use is because they see the rest as a unit I think most of the times they jsut use the singular verb because it s what sounds idiomatic to them probably they don t like to use a plural verb next to a singular noun CalifJim wrote Recall that...

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...