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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Do I use is or are?

Here are the rest of them.

Here is the rest of them.

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Context might dictate otherwise, but I would go with the plural are.

  • Context might dictate otherwise, but I would go with the plural are.
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Context might dictate otherwise, but I would go with the plural are.
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the rest of is not used for purposes of agreement. It's the noun after the rest of that is used for agreement.

Here is the rest of the wine.
Here is the rest of the butter.
Here are the rest of the carrots.

In casual speech, the contracted form Here's is often used whether what follows i

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