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Moon7296 Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
(The clothes) singular or plural?
A: The clothes you're wearing look unfashionable!
B: What? You have no eye for fashion!
Q) The reason why plural verb form "look" is used is that "the clothes" in A implies not the one such as a shirt, but also includes pants, thus two clothes?(one for top, one for bottom)
B: What? You have no eye for fashion!
Q) The reason why plural verb form "look" is used is that "the clothes" in A implies not the one such as a shirt, but also includes pants, thus two clothes?(one for top, one for bottom)
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(one for top, one for bottom) No, you can have a piece of clothing, or an item of clothing, but " clothes" is effectively uncountable, and has no singular form. It always takes a plural verb.
- (one for top, one for bottom) No, you can have a piece of clothing, or an item of clothing, but " clothes" is effectively uncountable, and has no singular form.
- It always takes a plural verb.
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moon7296Q) The reason why plural verb form "look" is used is that "the clothes" in A implies not the one such as a shirt, but also includes pants, thus two clothes?(one for top, one for bottom)No, you can have a piece of clothing, or an item of clothing, but "clothes" is effectively uncountable, and has no singular form. It always takes a
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