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Moon7296 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
there was a lot of activity
There was a lot of feverish activity before the opening of the new store.
Q. The sentence i found from my dictionary has two issues. A lot of activity and not activities?
And that comes after the singular be verb should be ok?
Q. The sentence i found from my dictionary has two issues. A lot of activity and not activities?
And that comes after the singular be verb should be ok?
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The sentence is fine. 'Activity' is used here in an uncountable sense . Clive
- The sentence is fine.
- 'Activity' is used here in an uncountable sense .
- Clive
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The sentence is fine. 'Activity' is used here in an uncountable sense.
Clive
Clive
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The sentence is correct. "activity" is used as an uncountable noun, taking a singular verb. "activities" would require the verb "were", but it does not fit this sentence very well (the meaning is not quite right).
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