- 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 (
- Staff are or staff is - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct in the following example? "The following staff are is (?) absent today: John Doe Jane Doe Bob Doe"
- Team is or Team are - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- My family *is* or My family *are*? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Are collective nouns always plural, or are certain ones singular? Which is correct: The rest of the staff is or are? The rest of my family is or are? I've done a bit of re
- Difference between are you done and have you done.
I was just wondering, how can we differentiate "are you done?" and "have you done?", and what is the appropriate way to use each?
- Which is preferable: We are all. . . or We all are. . . ?
Both are grammatical, but the first is more usual We are all is much more frequent than we all are in both the Corpus of Contemporary American English and in the British National Corpus There are, however, some contexts where we all are would be used The answer to the question Who is responsible? might be We all are, and not We are all That apart, as a non-native speaker, you would be wise
- auxiliary verbs - 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
- grammar - Is one of you vs Are one of you - English Language . . .
Is one of you near my office? Are one of you near my office? ChatGPT says that they are both grammatically correct which means people use both (i e , there exits mass confusion) The subject is q
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