Patrick Scrivenor

I Used to Know That

  • fedorfaustovhas quoted4 years ago
    rule with so many variations and exceptions can barely be called a rule. If you are in doubt go to a dictionary.
  • fedorfaustovhas quoted4 years ago
    to be read to out of up for
  • fedorfaustovhas quoted4 years ago
    Never use a preposition to end a sentence with
  • fedorfaustovhas quoted4 years ago
    Irregular verbs just have to be learnt – sorry, learned
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsovahas quoted5 years ago
    When adjectives are treated as collective nouns – the needy, the unemployed, the good, the wealthy – they are always plural:
    The unemployed are mostly young and homeless.
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsovahas quoted5 years ago
    There is no hard-and-fast rule
  • Ekaterina Kuznetsovahas quoted5 years ago
    Are you red hot on the use of the subjunctive? Is it your second nature never to use a preposition at the end of a sentence?
  • Anastasia Dobrovolskahas quoted6 years ago
    It means simply one form of a verb that acts as a noun (there are others).
  • Anastasia Dobrovolskahas quoted6 years ago
    a covey of grouse
    a flock of birds
    a herd of cattle
    a pod of dolphins
  • Anastasia Dobrovolskahas quoted6 years ago
    In British English, collective nouns are usually singular if the ‘collective’ is being thought of as a unit:
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