By Singular verbs, Grammar

Hi, New2I think when what and who function as subjects, a singular verb follows. It's just my opinion.

Hi, (1) Professor Beverly Keever of the School of Communications at the University of Hawaii told us there is an inverse relationship to what is considered news and what is important. Should "that" be inserted before "there is an..." Please advise It's optional. ...

Pter, We were taught early on in basic grammar that “many” suggest more than 1 and therefore plural verb should be used. Yes, it’s true, but not always. Sometimes the rules seem to be illusively bent, depending on the context. 5 miles one way is too far to walk to school. – singular verb is...

It's the same in BrE; either a singular or a plural verb can be used after 'family'. My family was/were in Orchard Road last Sunday.

I was reading a special English sentence stucture called "cleft sentence" in my grammar book, and I found one sentence I think is sort of strange: It was my sisters that were dancing. I think that since the subject is "my sisters", then why it has a singular verb...

Hi, I have something I really need to ask. It's about some tricky usage of singular and plural verbs. I hope you could please check out these sentence for me and see which verb should be used. My grammar books all fail to give me an answer, so I come here for your help. Only 2 yards of...

Hi Tanit, You're not wrong. I just outsmarted myself, trying to introduce a touch of irony. There seems to be a mid-level of registry where we know not that we know not - or where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. We're scolded for saying "me an' him," as...

My pleasure, Avangi.After reading you post, however, I'm a bit confused. Grammar books often sort of suggest that we (students) should use more formal / higher register structures; since we are taught to use "a pair of" with singular verbs, I'd have said it was the other way...

Hi guys, I am trying to determine what MS Word captures as grammatical issue and what is not. Just out of curiosity. I am taking example sentences from “The Gregg Reference Manual” and checking them in MS Word. It is able to recognize some grammatical issues but not all. I understand that...

Thank you so much!I see it's singular ("is") in the second pair, and either singular or plural in the first pair. I don't really know which I might be more likely to use, anyway. So it seems it's the structure "either... or..." that always go well with the singular, while "or" is a little more...