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."

Hi, sounds like a good general rule of thumb, except in cases where you are referring to the word itself, such as "Dog is a three-letter word." I can't imagine an English-language learner is going to be crafting too many sentences of

That explanation is more germane to British English, and it seems satisfactory. Most collective nouns are treated invariably as singular nouns in American English. CJ

Each of the following sentences may contain an error in grammar, idiom or usage. If there is an error, it will appear in one of the underlined portions. Answers are given at the answer part. First try to answer by yourself, and then check it

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

As I am the lone defender on the debate of singularity use, I need to be absolutely convinced with logic and reason. Wihtout questions, These examples are seriously debated and to me, each was based on individual interpretation. as I mentioned

Hi. We would like you to try.. Grammar Geek said it as I meant it .. Fandorin. I still can't figure out why you said to me, 'We would like you to try'. I know this is where people ask and answer about English. I

The indefinnite article and numbers are not used with non-countable nouns, such as advice. So, he has a good knowledge of English is wrong? CB

"I would extrapolate that "votebank, vote-bank, vote bank" is countable, and can be plural" Oh no not again! I'll be confuse again. Ray is saying it's singular, I also feel and was feeling so so I believed him though I

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