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Negatives with “a” or “any”
Are both these sentences correct?
There isn’t a cat in the kitchen.
There isn’t any cat in the kitchen.
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Consistency of “There is the same number of elements in… as there are in…”
I'm proofreading this in a friend's paper:
There is the same number of elements in the set of odd numbers as there are in the even numbers.
The same number is singular and it's the thing being ...
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Is it correct to say “There's many a …”? [closed]
Today on GUARDIAN life&style is this teaser:
There's many a garden outbuilding crying out for a makeover.
I'm wondering if this sentence is correct. I think there should either many deleted ...
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Should I say “there is a handful of…” or “there are a handful of…”?
I want to write that I have handful of somethings. Which of these is the correct form?
There is a handful of somethings.
There are a handful of somethings.
Are both correct?
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“Is there any proof” versus “are there any proofs”
The stack exchange question "Is there any concrete-solid proofs of this space odyssey?" made me want to edit it to remove the s in proofs (someone with enough flair did), however it made me wonder ...
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Which is correct: “There are not any employees” vs. “there is not any employee”
Sometimes I see two variants of following sentence:
"there are not any employees" in the department
"there is not any employee" in the department
What is the correct sentence?
