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Believer Posted 20 years ago
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Why use one over the other?
Hi,
I have two phrases below. Please why I see the first version more often than the other.
There has been a lot of debate among ...
There has been a lot of debates among ...
If the first one is being used as sort of its quality or nature, would you say the quantifier "a lot of" kind of necessitates or makes the situation tilt more toward the use of the second version which includes the word "debates"? How about these? Would you say they follow my line of reasoning too?
There has been some debate among ...
There has been some debates among ...
When expressing some necessity, ...
When expressing some necessities, ...
I have two phrases below. Please why I see the first version more often than the other.
There has been a lot of debate among ...
There has been a lot of debates among ...
If the first one is being used as sort of its quality or nature, would you say the quantifier "a lot of" kind of necessitates or makes the situation tilt more toward the use of the second version which includes the word "debates"? How about these? Would you say they follow my line of reasoning too?
There has been some debate among ...
There has been some debates among ...
When expressing some necessity, ...
When expressing some necessities, ...
Top answer
' means that several issues have been discussed, which is a rarer situation to happen, hence the previous version is more frequent. I'm not used to reasoning in terms of quality - nature, can say nothing about it.
- ' means that several issues have been discussed, which is a rarer situation to happen, hence the previous version is more frequent.
- I'm not used to reasoning in terms of quality - nature, can say nothing about it.
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'There has been a lot of debate among...' means that one issue has roused much talk;
'There have been a lot of debates among...' means that several issues have been discussed, which is a rarer situation to happen, hence the previous version is more frequent.
I'm not
'There have been a lot of debates among...' means that several issues have been discussed, which is a rarer situation to happen, hence the previous version is more frequent.
I'm not
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