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Almayar Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

want or wants?

in my country most of the people (want to go / wants to go) to the university.

there (is/are) several kinds of flowers in the bouquet..
also where is the subject in the previous sentence?
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Hi.
What do you think? Tell us what you think is correct, we will comment on it.
Hamid
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Most of the people want to....

There are...

I've seen a lot of native speakers use There's(but not there is) in such situations, however I believe it's gramatically incorrect.

"There" is the subject I think(dummy subject).

Edit: Oops. I didn't see hrsanei's post.
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almayarmost of the people (want to go / wants to go)
The agreement for a "most of the" construction goes with the noun after "of the".

Here it's "people", so you're working with a plural. "people want".
almayarThere are several kind
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