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Myvi Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Confuse

I had some confusion about the difference between
1. means and mean
2. depends on and depend on
when we should use this word?
thank you~
  

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The form with -s is the third person singular simple present tense. The form without -s is simple present tense of all the other persons: I, you, we, they mean/depend S/he means/depends

  • The form with -s is the third person singular simple present tense.
  • The form without -s is simple present tense of all the other persons: I, you, we, they mean/depend S/he means/depends
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The form with -s is the third person singular simple present tense. The form without -s is simple present tense of all the other persons:

I, you, we, they mean/depend
S/he means/depends
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how about this sentence?
"this developed block method computes several numerical solutions simultaneously and the number of solutions to be computed depends on/depend on the feature of the block method"
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'The number of'...depends
'A number of'...depend

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