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Soulmate678 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

i found this on one of my books.

"The amount of hearsay, myths, and complete misunderstandings about HTML and XHTML is enormous."
Is this correct, or it should be "HTML and XHTML are enormous". which of the two is correct?
  

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Yes, the sentence is correct, since the subject of which is 'amount'.

— Chenpv

  • Yes, the sentence is correct, since the subject of which is 'amount'.
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Yes, the sentence is correct, since the subject of which is 'amount'.
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please explain to me, and please tell me what are the other words that is similar to amount.
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Soulmate678"The amount of hearsay, myths, and complete misunderstandings about HTML and XHTML is enormous."
The amount of hearsay, myths, and complete misunderstandings about HTML and XHTML is enormous.

The trunk of the sentence has been highlighted up there, and the part underlined suggests the components of 'the amount'.

Syn. for 'a
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ic, english is so comlicated.. chenpv, you're from china? how did you learn english? can you suggest me some advice. my english is not that poor, but is not very well. im from singapore.
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The sentence is acceptable on an informal level. However, to be exact, "amount" is used correctly only with "hearsay", a non-count item. "myths" and "misunderstandings" are countable, so "number" (not "amount") should be used with them: "the number of myths", "the number of misunderstandings".

The repaired form is quite a lot of words:
The amount of hearsay, the number of
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