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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
There is or there are
Let put some expressions of quantity in front of uncountable nouns, shall we? My question is this: Is it always the case that the verbs for the underlined parts have to be has?
There is a lot of furniture/space/information/work.
There is plenty of furniture/space/information/work.
Sorry this just came up, is it proper to italicize the word like I have done as do away with some necessary phrases like "the word 'has'"? Surely, I have seen more than one time people using it for the reason stated.
There is a lot of furniture/space/information/work.
There is plenty of furniture/space/information/work.
Sorry this just came up, is it proper to italicize the word like I have done as do away with some necessary phrases like "the word 'has'"? Surely, I have seen more than one time people using it for the reason stated.
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Hi, Let put some expressions of quantity in front of uncountable nouns, shall we? My question is this: Is it always the case that the verbs for the underlined parts have to be has ? I don't understand why you are asking about 'has' when your examples show 'is'.
- Hi, Let put some expressions of quantity in front of uncountable nouns, shall we?
- My question is this: Is it always the case that the verbs for the underlined parts have to be has ?
- I don't understand why you are asking about 'has' when your examples show 'is'.
- If you are asking, in a general way, if the verb needs to be singular, the answer is 'yes'.
- There is a lot of furniture/space/information/work.
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Hi,
Let put some expressions of quantity in front of uncountable nouns, shall we? My question is this: Is it always the case that the verbs for the underlined parts have to be has? I don't understand why you are asking about 'has' when your examples show 'is'. If you are asking, in a general way, if the verb needs to be singular,
Let put some expressions of quantity in front of uncountable nouns, shall we? My question is this: Is it always the case that the verbs for the underlined parts have to be has? I don't understand why you are asking about 'has' when your examples show 'is'. If you are asking, in a general way, if the verb needs to be singular,
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Thank you.
In respect to italicizing to do away with the aforementioned burden of having to write out the necessary phrases, would you recommend doing that for/in??? FORMAL WRITING?
In respect to italicizing to do away with the aforementioned burden of having to write out the necessary phrases, would you recommend doing that for/in??? FORMAL WRITING?
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Hello Believer
I don't see Clive online, so I'll try to answer your question.
1. Do you have to use the word "has"?
2. Do you have to use has?
3. Do you have to use the word has?
All these forms would be acceptable in formal writing. In terms of presentation, #2 or #3 would probably be better.
MrP
I don't see Clive online, so I'll try to answer your question.
1. Do you have to use the word "has"?
2. Do you have to use has?
3. Do you have to use the word has?
All these forms would be acceptable in formal writing. In terms of presentation, #2 or #3 would probably be better.
MrP
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FYI
The second form is the one I see 99% of the time in professionally edited grammar books. Sometimes boldface type is reserved for a lexical item that takes various inflections, e.g., there may be a reference to be -- the italicized form then being used for the specific inflected forms, e.g., is, were, been, to be. Thus, be means "any form of the verb be
The second form is the one I see 99% of the time in professionally edited grammar books. Sometimes boldface type is reserved for a lexical item that takes various inflections, e.g., there may be a reference to be -- the italicized form then being used for the specific inflected forms, e.g., is, were, been, to be. Thus, be means "any form of the verb be
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