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16 questions linked to/from Is it "5–6 weeks are a lot of time" or "5–6 weeks is a lot of time"?
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The last few years "has seen" vs "have seen"? [duplicate]
Consider the following sentences:
The last few years has seen the building of the new church.
and
The last few years have seen the building of the new church.
As a native speaker, both of ...
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"Four years are" vs. "four years is" [duplicate]
An exam question is driving me crazy.
Find the mistake in the following:
Four years are a long time to spend away from family and friends.
Literally everyone solved it by replacing are with is.
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Two days "is" or "are"? [duplicate]
I have heard about the usage of "be" in specific situations like 2 days, 5 dollars,...
For example:
Two days ____ enough for us
Should I use "is" or "are"? I see both of them are appropriate.
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'Is too many', 'are too many' or something else? [duplicate]
"I decided to go on holiday for a week. I think 10 days is too many for me."
Am I correct using 'is' instead of 'are'? Or the only way is to change the phrase to '10-days period is too long for me?'...
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Two questions are what I wanted to ask [duplicate]
In sentences like "Two questions are what I wanted to ask", should I treat the subject, "Two questions", as singular or plural?
It seems more natural to treat it as plural. But when I reverse the ...
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Subject-verb agreement. Subject is plural, but not really [duplicate]
Once again I have a line that I wrote for another site that has me a bit bugged.
Months in the freezer is going to pretty much eliminate any risk of consuming a live parasite.
Months is obviously ...
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Verb agreement with nouns modified by numbers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it “5-6 weeks are a lot of time” or “5-6 weeks is a lot of time”?
I am writing about a baseball player who has 33 at-bats in his career.
Which is ...
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Choose: Six years (seems, seem) too much time to build a house [duplicate]
Choose: Six years (seems, seem) too much time to build a house.
I have this question while solving an exam in English, it appears to be "seems" but the plural noun phrase (six years) leading you to "...
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Why do these two situations allow a noun to be singular and plural? [duplicate]
Examples:
"Two miles is too far to walk" vs "There are two miles"
In the first situation, the noun is seen as singular, while the noun is seen as plural in the second situation. ...
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Subject-verb agreement with implied subject [duplicate]
tl;dr Which is the appropriate verb in the following sentence?
Apparently, 2,000 steps [is/are] hazardous to my sleep.
I use a sleep app that calculates a (dubious) sleep quality value and tracks ...
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Indefinite articles used with plural nouns: It was AN amazing TWO DAYS
The indefinite article a(n), derives from the old English word an meaning "one". Generally this word only occurs in determiner function before noun phrases which are singular. However, there seem to ...
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Is this correct: "Our listeners are what make X"?
I listen to a podcast that I like, but every episodes ends with
Our listeners are what make [podcast name] possible.
which makes me cringe a little each time I hear it. Is it just me, or is the ...
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Saying how many years "have" or "has" passed [closed]
Do you say have or has when talking about how many years passed. My example is (from the SAT):
More than forty years have passed since a quarter of a million people marched on Washington, D.C...
I ...
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"Years of experience that keeps us safe." vs "Years of experience that keep us safe."
If you've ever seen Mythbusters, you know that all episodes contain at least one safety disclaimer. Having recently rewatched several episodes, I've noticed that some disclaimers have Adam saying, "...
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"What I'm looking for is/are [plural noun]"
Which one of these is correct, and if both are correct in certain contexts, which is preferred?
What I'm looking for is methods that help...
What I'm looking for are the methods that help...
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