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grammatical number - neither is vs. neither are? - English Language . . . In formal usage, it should definitely be is: Neither of these options is available This is the traditional rule (iirc, Fowler’s discusses this at length) However, in colloquial usage, either option is fine, and are seems to now be somewhat more common, at least on the internet A commenter here nicely describes the sort of thought process which probably pushes people (usually
Is there a single word for people who inhabit rural areas? Even today, _____ have been living in the past ( ____ = habitants of rural areas) Note- The inhabitants can be sophisticated or unsophisticated, literate or illiterate They should just live in a
Should spaces be used between lt; or gt; and numbers or letters? The AMA Manual of Style says: Thin spaces should be used before and after the following mathematical symbols: ±, =, <, >, ≤, ≥, +, −, ÷, ×, ·, ≈, ∼, ∩, ∫, Π, Σ, and | a ± b a = b a + b a − b a ÷ b a × b a · b a > b a < b Symbols are set close to numbers, superscripts and subscripts, and parentheses, brackets, and braces (Highlight mine) However, this is only one
Shot or shooted - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Shooted is an obsolete, nonstandard simple past tense and past participle of shoot (source) You should not use this form Shot is proper It's still used sometimes, but it's really obsolete Example: He took his gun and shooted people just like, from one block of LePlaza and two blocks from the main police station of PAP — The Huffington Post, “Georgianne Nienaber: Senator Leahy Calls
Why are the donkey and the butt both named ass? It's a historical accident—they’re really two different words In the sense buttocks, the word goes back to OE ærs, and beyond that to Proto Indo-European: there are cognates in Greek, Hittite and Old Irish This is reflected in the ordinary British English arse —the {r} is dropped only in US English In the sense donkey, the word goes back to OE assa, derived (it is thought) via Celtic
Difference between This is and It is, These are and They are When I should use "It is" and when "This is"? For example when I show an apple to my son, how is better to say: It is an apple This is an apple What is the main difference between abovementioned p
What would you call this fenced training area for horses? [ODO] () has << paddock noun 1 A small field or enclosure where horses are kept or exercised >> But this is obviously a hypernym 'Fenced training area for horses' works reasonably well, but 'paddock' is less of a mouthful