Clarencetsang: If you have decided that you wish to start your sentence with "My favorite food...," you have two options: (1) You may follow the "rule" -- "food" is singular. So use the singular verb (My favorite food

Hello, I heard you can use "They" as a singular non-gender-biased neutral pronoun. So, can I say as follows? This is a good way not to interrupt someone before they finish es speaking and to speak after they does.

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

Too many questions in one post!! 1. "If you add to a thread that already has 18 pages of discussion, it probably won't get much attention. If you have a new question, make a new posting." > Why is "posting" instead of

Am I seriously wrong if I tell her that SINGULAR REGULAR NOUNS (I'm not talking about proper nouns, plural nouns, or pronouns) DO NOT START SENTENCES, but follow an article or a word like "some," "one," "that,"

Making a fresh pot of coffee and breakfast for us is what my mom does first thing every morning.. I have two nouns here, coffee and breakfast but verb is still singular. It sounds perfectly fine to my ears … When speaking, I would naturally use

Hi. How can we tell if we are talking about one thing or two things when they are identical structually? 1) to the first and second generation to the first and second generations 2) to the black and white dog to the black and white dogs The first

Which brings me back to my earlier contention; it is important to determine the number of your subject before you can employ a verb. If your subject is a single "group", then use the singular verb, if your subject is "groups",

"Meant" to whom? If the comment is made "America should withdraw from Iraq.", does this mean that the speaker feels that all the soldiers from Tortolla should be withdrawn? This "America includes all the parts of the

Three cats is 3 instances of the conceptual class "Cat". ... When they multiply, the result is expressed in litters. Does any other more appropriate word come to your mind? To help you let me specify what exactly problem is ... such a