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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 (
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- and I am are… - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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
- I often use is being and are being in my sentences. Is it correct . . .
Short answer: Yes, it's fine Totally fine If you're interested: It's the progressive passive; a combination of the progressive aspect and the passive voice It does have a subject, which is lasers But being passive the subject is the patient rather than the agent of the verb There're two passive forms in English Lasers are used Lasers are being used This latter uses the progressive
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