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- Should I use make or makes in the following statement?
Should I use make or makes in the following statement: Please explain why your experience and qualifications makes you the best candidate for this position
- grammatical number - Is it makes or make in this sentence . . .
Makes is the correct form of the verb, because the subject of the clause is which and the word which refers back to the act of dominating, not to France, Spain, or Austria The sentence can be rewritten as: The domination throughout history by France, Spain, and Austria alternately over Milan makes it a city full of different cultural influences
- Should I use make or makes? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
"Makes" is the third-person singular simple present tense of "make", so if a singular thing makes you mad, it repeatedly does so, or does so on an ongoing basis
- Make or Makes for - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
To make for is an idiom with several different meanings In the context of this question, the approximate meaning is 'to produce', 'to represent' or 'to constitute': Raw earthworms make for grim eating = Raw earthworms represent an unpleasant kind of food Dobermans make for great guard dogs = Dobermans have the qualities needed to make them great guard dogs Sowing camomile in your lawn makes
- singular vs plural - Make or Makes within a sentence? - English . . .
Are both of these statements acceptable grammatically? Receiving homemade cupcakes make me feel special Receiving homemade cupcakes makes me feel special
- What makes. . . and Why is. . . : How different are they?
What makes is asking what thing, condition or feature that is present Why is is asking for a reason, cause or condition behind the observation Both serve the same general meaning, as both are not asking for an accurate or specific explanation Answers are probably not going to reflect the specific meaning of that difference: so it is probably
- grammaticality - which MAKE or which MAKES (difficult one) - English . . .
This does not work To rectify the problem, you could include a noun antecedent The issue of makes or make then resolves itself because the grammatical number of the antecedent determines the number of the verb For example: I admire teachers who are knowledgeable and patient, qualities which make their students feel confident
- How to use make and or make for in this sense?
The phrase makes for has a more specific meaning that the word makes and in this context limits its definition to the following: to help maintain or promote; further
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