By Verbs, Genders

The important plural in your sentences is "those." People often misuse "their" as a singular, and "who" may be either singular or plural.If you wanted to express the same thought in the singular, you might use the singular "whoever" in place of the plural...

I think it is wrong to suggest (as some seem to be doing) that a language should be changed to make it easier for foreigners to learn - irregularities are never a problem for native speakers. Besides, if any changes were made (and I am not sure who is going to make them) people would just ignore...

You need to fix the part in red.

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help - I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English (completely made up). In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2. I have got so far:Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as...

Ok... so basically I need to do a five paragraph essay (Paragraph model?) by analyzing 3 quotes from this a passage I read "No name woman" by Maxie Hong Kingston. I'm just having trouble with a few things... some I understand, and others I don't. I tried fixing some errors that...

Hello again,Unfortunately,I've put one part in my previous post wrongly.Sorry for that.It would be correct to use the preposition "toward" in the following part:"But,if the verb indicates motion,or in plain english,if you are :going toward, flying toward, traveling...

Rule 1: The verb agrees with the subject.Rule 2: Their is an acceptable 3rd person singular personal pronoun of unspecified gender.

I don't know where you are from so you may or may not have this feature in your own language:Because French has noun genders (masculine and feminine), French schoolchildren learn all their nouns with the article, for example "le nez", "la bouche", so they always know what gender the word has....

Grammar Geek wrote:Can't we just say that because English lacks a non-gender-specific singular third-person personal pronoun (that applies to people - we don't like being called "it"), and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful, we sometimes use the plural form to avoid...

Anonymous wrote: Yoong Liat wrote: Could you give me an example of such a sentence so that I can hope to explain, using my non-native logic? He was clearly asking you about this one: Everyone looks like they are enjoying the party. Strictly speaking, it should be Everyone looks like he...