Is or are?
There is/are still ten minutes before the show starts.
Are both choices correct?
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teacherJapan Are both choices correct? com/module-4/verbs-agreement-and-challenges/lesson-7/agreement-money-time-and-measurements ): "Sometimes it's difficult to tell whether to use a singular or plural verb, but there's an easy way to figure it out—just think about your sentence as the answer to a question. If to get your answer you can ask questions like how much?
- teacherJapan Are both choices correct?
- com/module-4/verbs-agreement-and-challenges/lesson-7/agreement-money-time-and-measurements ): "Sometimes it's difficult to tell whether to use a singular or plural verb, but there's an easy way to figure it out—just think about your sentence as the answer to a question.
- If to get your answer you can ask questions like how much?
- how big?
- how small?
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teacherJapanAre both choices correct?
From a website ( https://www.englishgrammar101.com/module-4/verbs-agreement-and-challenges/lesson-7/agreement-money-time-and-measurements ):
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0teacherJapanThere is/are still ten minutes before the show starts.
Are both choices correct?
"ten minutes" is intended to mean an amount of time, not ten individual minutes, so "is" makes more sense than "are". I'll bet that at least 98% of native speakers use "is" in cases like this. So from the point of view of native speaker usage, only "i
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