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“Is” with singular and plural nouns
I came across the sentence
My biggest grievance is grammar mistakes.
I'd be inclined to write it as
My biggest grievance is with grammar mistakes.
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Grammar mistakes are my biggest ...
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Is it “5-6 weeks are a lot of time” or “5-6 weeks is a lot of time”?
I was just copyediting somebody's answer on another SE site and my native English speaker Sprachgefühl told me I had to correct the grammar of one sentence:
... 5-6 weeks are a lot of time ...
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Is “is” an auxiliary verb? [duplicate]
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Is "is" an auxiliary verb?
My Mum's bag is blue.
Is is an auxillary verb in that sentence? If not, what part of speech is it?
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Could “are he” be correct?
I was just trying to formulate a sentence in an email, and wanted to reference a third person, inquiring as to which of something that person was referring in the forwarded mail message.
Is it:
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