When should I use difference or differences? When you think that there are more than one unlike events involved, use plural For example: Are there any differences? If you talk about one particular What is the major difference?
What is the difference or what are the differences? Both "What is the difference between X and Y?" and "What are the differences between X and Y?" are grammatical and will be understood According to my native-speaker intuition, "What is the difference ?" is the normal phrasing I would only use "What are the differences ?" if I was already pretty sure that there was more than one difference
Difference between “is” and “it is” in a sentence The password, a boarding pass and the food are the subject of is in the given examples, so you do not need to add an extra subject it In "it is raining", it is the subject so you cannot leave it out So in short, only in the phrase "it is raining" do you use "it", in the other examples "it" should not be there
verbs - English Language Learners Stack Exchange Whenever I read advanced grammar articles I come across these two terms quite often : be and to be What is the difference between these two and how to identify the difference between these two? Pl