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Magda Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Roadworks

Hi,
I've come across this sentence and I wonder whether it is correct. "We're also terribly sorry that there is roadworks on the route you usually take because ...". Shouldn't it be "there are roadworks?

Thank you.


  

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I think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).

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I think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).
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Marius HancuI think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).
'Roadworks' is a plural noun according to the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
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Yoong Liat
Marius HancuI think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).
'Roadworks' is a plural noun according to the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
You'll find lots of singulars of it at the New York Times.
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Marius Hancu
Yoong Liat
Marius HancuI think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).
'Roadworks' is a plural noun according to the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.

You'll find lots of singulars of it at the New York Times.
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It shows in singular form even in BrE, just perhaps less:

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UK - Satnav systems guide cars to a watery end (Guardian)

Dozens of motorists have become marooned in the river Avon in
Wiltshire after being directed into the water by their satellite
navigation systems. When a main road in the town of Sherston was
closed for roadw
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Yoong Liat
Marius HancuI think you're right (also, yours is more than 10 times more frequent at Yahoo).
'Roadworks' is a plural noun according to the Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
I have the Collins Dictionary on CD, and indeed, it gives a plural form only with the following example:
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: roadworks (US roadwork).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: roadworks (plural) BrE.

Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners: roadworks noun (plural) AmE: roadwork.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary: noun (plural) Br
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Yoong LiatCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary: roadworks (US roadwork).

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: roadworks (plural) BrE.

Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners: roadworks noun (plural) AmE: roadwork.

Oxford Advanced Learn
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CB wrote: I can't watch TV because I have a lot of works to do.

Shouldn't be 'work'? 'Roadworks' is plural but 'work' is an uncountable noun.
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