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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
Company is or Company are? [duplicate] - English Language Usage . . . The other way "Company ABC is hiring" for US but "Company ABC are hiring" for UK In this example, "Company ABC" is the subject In your example, "Name" is the subject, so on both sides of the Atlantic we use "is"
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
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
Replacement for the expression there are. [duplicate] My writing teacher dislikes the expression quot;there are quot; in essays writing Does anybody know some good substitutes for this overused expression? Or a better way to express these words?