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Vincent Teo Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

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Can I say,



  1. She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy.



  2. Their family have four members.



  3. She keeps her bedroom tidy.



  4. The mouse is nibbling at the biscuit.



  5. Ali was absent in the class.



  6. The firemen saved the girl from the burning house.


  

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Vincent Teo Can I say, She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy. k. Otherwise, singular.

— Philip

  • Vincent Teo Can I say, She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy.
  • k.
  • Otherwise, singular.
  • Their family have four members.
  • Most people count 'family' as a singular noun: has She keeps her bedroom tidy.
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Vincent Teo
Can I say,



  1. She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy. If you mean several kinds of ice cream, o.k. Otherwise, singular.



  2. Their family have four members. Most people count 'family' as a singular noun: has



  3. She keep
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  1. She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy. Ice cream, not creams. You can say this, but it's a huge amount of ice cream.



  2. Their family have has four members. Far more natural: There are four people in their family.



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Hi GG,

Ali was absent in the class.

I wonder if this is AmE? I'd say Ali was absent from class.

Clive
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I would too - I was going to rewrite it and then I was going to insert the fromin there and then I forgot Emotion: smile I see Philip and I
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Ali was absent in the class.

I wonder if this is AmE?

No, I think it's just American Typo. In American English we also say "Ali was absent from the class."

Also, no one else seems to have spotted a problem in the first sentence:
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After my prior bought/brought discussion, you'd have thought I would have seen that one myself!
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Vincent Teo
Can I say,



  1. She bought a tub of ice creams to the crying boy.



  2. Their family have four members.



  3. She keeps her bedroom tidy.



  4. The mouse is nibbling at the biscuit.



  5. Ali was absent in the class.



  6. The firemen saved the girl f
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I'm hoping that another native speaker will explain my choice in #6. I'm not quite able to come up with a logical reason.


Hi Philip -- I'm still thinking about the choice between "saved" and "rescued" here. I also prefer "rescued" and can't quite explain why. The definitions are almost identical, except that "rescued" is more specific and "saved
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Perhaps you might save you photo album or your mother's jewelry box (things) but rescue a person?
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Grammar GeekPerhaps you might save you photo album or your mother's jewelry box (things) but rescue a person?

Sounds good to me, GG. Thanks.
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