I would say, "Writing, photography and art embrace the themes of..." I would see them as different singular entities, discrete element of a cohesive list. Of course, what those three things can possibly have in common and collectively embrace, I

Which is correct, and/or which sounds better? The writing, photography and art embraces the themes of... or The writing, photography and art embrace the themes of... I know that the latter should be used, but can I get away with considering

Thank you! LOL on sportscaster speak being awful khoff, you got the meaning right. My hubby's argument was that it would sound like "games won", but grammar is grammar, even if it sounds confusing. ITA with the revamped sentence. Too bad

I am certainly no expert in sports talk, but I took it to mean something like this: the team is playing in a series of match-ups of, say, three games against each opponent. They won the first game of the first series. They won the first game of

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. First and foremost, I wouldn't waste too much thought trying to figure out what a sportscaster says. These guys are notorious for bad grammar and terrible diction. ... a team winning "consecutive game ones". I

In this context it is interesting to note that there is a Finnish noun classification called partative which is imbedded in English but not obvious. Partative nouns indicate a class of objects rather than a particular object. There is no article

Yes, you're right, Mr M. Does 'a police person" exist? AND I've just realised I made a terrible mistake in my first post: OF COURSE furniture, luggage etc are followed by a singular. But you've given me precious information (sg) about cattleand

To avoid accusations of sexism, you should use 'police officer', Pieanne. The furniture/luggage/baggage/news/equipment/information/money/grass/work/macaroni is heavy/interesting/green/delicious. All uncountable nouns singular in form. The

Teachers, If I'm not wrong, these words are followed by a verb in the plural: furniture, luggage, police, news, and others. If we want to have a singular, then we use: a policeman (of course) a piece of furniture (or table, armchair etc)/of

Hi there, Is there anything wrong with using the plural with generalizations using 'no'? Take the following sentence: "No cats are black." It seems like the natural flipside to "all cats are grey", but for some reason I have a feeling