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 (

Oct 7, 2011 · 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...

Feb 18, 2011 · Both are used. Before the 1940s, "one or more are" was clearly more popular, but since then they seem roughly equally common.

Mar 10, 2014 · 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 …

Note that in both the problematic Answer and my example attempting to mimic the same context more briefly, the writer doesn't know how many there are. There may be one, more, or even none. Getting …

Jul 28, 2015 · @phoog: What about them? There are 26 written instances of are a prosperous people in Google Books, but the only instance of the singular verb form is is a prosperous, people-centred, …

Only indirectly, to the extent that the issue of semantic override in time and money expressions applies only to countable nouns. I can't conceive of a sentence where an uncountable noun is followed by a …

Jul 13, 2011 · I was just wondering, how can we differentiate "are you done?" and "have you done?", and what is the appropriate way to use each?

In my experience as a native speaker in the Middle Atlantic region, there is a slight difference. "How are you?" is a bland greeting for someone you haven't seen for a while, while "How are you doing?" …

Sep 11, 2010 · I say, "You are welcomed!" As in: You are welcomed to my time and effort—think nothing of it! abbreviated to "You are welcomed." Another example of the use of you are welcomed would be …