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- grammar - Is there versus Are there - English Language Usage . . .
Are there any questions I should be asking? Is there any articles available on the subject? My instinct is that in the two questions above, it should be 'are' as the subjects of the sentences (
- Which is correct: The rest of the staff is or are? The rest of my . . .
I hope you can enlighten me I get varying answers in Google and I need to find out which is the correct grammatical structure for these sentences The rest of the staff is are on leave at the mo
- Which is correct: one or more is or one or more are?
Both are used Before the 1940s, "one or more are" was clearly more popular, but since then they seem roughly equally common
- There is are more than one. Whats the difference?
Note that in both the problematic Answer and my example attempting to mimic the same context more briefly, the writer doesn't know how many there are There may be one, more, or even none Getting even more specific, the writer might have an opinion on how many there might be, and wish to convey his leanings by choice of verb form if language allows this to be done succinctly
- terminology - What are the following words called: Am, Is, Are, Was . . .
The words you cited are all forms of the verb “be”, which is also known as a copula or linking verb The term auxiliary verb applies to verbs, such as forms of be, have, and do, that conjoin with another verb to add syntactic or semantic information, such as grammatical aspects like the progressive aspect or perfective aspect: progressive aspect: be + present participle (e g am walking
- people are is: which one is correct? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
@phoog: What about them? There are 26 written instances of are a prosperous people in Google Books, but the only instance of the singular verb form is is a prosperous, people-centred, compact city, which doesn't match OP's context
- How did the phrase are you nuts come about?
What is the connection between "nut" and the character? How was the phrase "are you nuts?" used at first?
- grammar - is vs are when followed by a number - English Language . . .
Only indirectly, to the extent that the issue of semantic override in time and money expressions applies only to countable nouns I can't conceive of a sentence where an uncountable noun is followed by a plural verb: The money are not enough His luck were bad The countability of a noun is most often of significance in deciding which article (if any) to use
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