The uses you quote are obsolete. I haven't heard them in the 73 years I've been around. Of course you'll find them in old books. "Is" is the correct term these days. (Personally, I've always liked the "be.")

There are 40 different types of t-shirts. okay There are 40 different type of t-shirts. There are 40 different types of t-shirt. okay T-shirt is countable so it should be: There are 40 type of t-shirts? But There are 40 different types of

Just offhand, I'd say the verb "to bite" is rarely used to describe the way humans eat things. We chew them, after putting a portion into our mouths. The noun is much more common, as in Philip's example "take/have a bite of

From my reading of it, I gather that the two films had different directors. Whether or not Harvey Keitel starred in both of them is not clear. One film is "loosely based" on the other. This doesn't mean that the later version is

<< Could you please give an example of 'under stress' which means 'internal'? >> I know he's under stress right now because he made me turn off his favorite program. He's wound up tighter than a drum.

You must repeat "have been." It's part of the verb. Edit. Well, I guess some would skip it. You need articles for "blast" and "few": in a Baghdad bomb blast a few days ago. Actually, logically, you seem to be

"Slow paced" is the more common. "Slowly paced" is fine.

"Different to" is perhaps as rare in AmE as "different than" is in BrE. I don't recall ever hearing "to," but I note that Google shows seventeen and a half million hits.

No. Wrong preposition. ( Than is a conjunction.) Is this a trick question? How far can you see? Actually, it's a grey area. Grammarians disagree, but both "than" and "from" are used. "From" is generally

Hi, I PM'd you about the double emoticons. (I don't know if you see them on your screen.) Anyway, we had a spate of them a few months ago following a software upgrade, and Punky advised me to switch from Explorer to Firefox. That cured the