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- 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
- Which is correct, neither is or neither are?
In formal usage, it should definitely be is: Neither of these options is available This is the traditional rule (iirc, Fowler’s discusses this at length) However, in colloquial usage, either option is fine, and are seems to now be somewhat more common, at least on teh internets A commenter here nicely describes the sort of thought process which probably pushes people (usually
- Is vs. Are when using (s) [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . .
When using (s), should "is" or "are" be used? Regardless of what option(s) is decided or Regardless of what option(s) are decided
- 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
- Is there a word for a broad range of knowledge?
The question is not exactly a duplicate, as the other questions seek a word for a person with such knowledge, while this one seeks the word for the knowledge itself Suppose we agree with some of the answers to the other questions that jack of all trades is a suitable term for the person, we still might wonder whether there is a good term for the quality of being a jack of all trades
- Why are the donkey and the butt both named ass?
It's a historical accident—they’re really two different words In the sense buttocks, the word goes back to OE ærs, and beyond that to Proto Indo-European: there are cognates in Greek, Hittite and Old Irish This is reflected in the ordinary British English arse —the {r} is dropped only in US English In the sense donkey, the word goes back to OE assa, derived (it is thought) via Celtic
- None of us is vs None of us are, Which is Correct?
Background We have a motivational poster in our office that says: None of us is as smart as all of us I think that it's grammatically incorrect, and here is my reasoning: All of the tigers have
- is or A set of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
@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
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