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 ( @davidschwartz the complete sentence is since it is virtually impossible to objectively define a set of characteristics in a society that is/are desirable for everyone, … But in my understanding (though i am not a native speaker) is, that the is/are has to refer either to the set or the characteristics and therefore the beginning of the sentence doesn't matter. Thanks to the responses, they cleared it up nicely I noticed the subject title changed from it's original blank, blank, and i am/are…
I am adding it back in as a comment, since the new header makes it impossible to find using a google search. Which is correct in the following example The following staff are/is (?) absent today John doe jane doe bob doe Are collective nouns always plural, or are certain ones singular The rest of the staff is or are
I've done a bit of re. I have been confused for so long about the plural and singular forms of people I want to put an end to this confusion What is the difference between these following expressions, and is it corr. 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
Be + present participle (e.g Is it correct to say, the team that will be attending with me is listed below Or should i say the team that will be attending with me are listed below I was just wondering, how can we differentiate are you done? and have you done?, and what is the appropriate way to use each? The subject, which are has to agree with, is secret ballots The fact that secret ballots and an important sign have different pluralities isn't ungrammatical.
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