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How do you express a natural habit of a species?
I am curious to know about the plural/singular form of addressing a species. For example, which expression is correct or more appropriate:
Lion does not eat wolf
Lions do not eat wolves
Or ...
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Express a phrase as compound [closed]
I need to express this phrase as a short compound to be used as programming variable name (this phrase is in the context of a software user interface):
the block showing current chatters
I have ...
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Is “cattle herds” grammatical? [closed]
I know that "a herd of cattle" and "many herds of cattle" are correct, but what about "cattle herds"? For example,
We drove by cattle herds.
Is that grammatical?
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“In regard to” or “in regards to”
Is it incorrect to say either of the following?
In regards to your previous email
In regards to your previous emails
I was asked this by a non-native speaker, and after thinking about it I ...
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“A classmate and I was” vs “A classmate and I were”
I'm writing a resume right now targeted towards a specific company. My girlfriend (a classmate) and I were (see, I don't know if that's the right word, hence this question!) the first from our school ...
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Pluralization of Phrases
I was corresponding with someone about the misuse of a Latin phrase, puto qui, during which I said,
Instead of peppering his sentences with incorrect puto quis, he should have used the infinitive ...
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“There is” or “there are”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“There are so many” vs. “There is so many”
I know this is correct:
There's no problem.
But what if it was plural, i.e. problems? Would this ...
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What’s the meaning of “there are more of somebody than there are of somebody”?
Their yellowish eyes were fixed upon Harry’s wand, and they looked scared. There might be a lot more of them than there were of him but Harry could tell, by the looks on their faces, that they knew ...
