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In Microsoft Word, the following sentence is flagged. It tells me to use "was" instead of "were"
There were half a dozen books strewn about the floor.
I would think that you would use "were" since it's a quantity more than one. You wouldn't say, "There was twelve books strewn about the floor." Does the use of the "half" modify it somehow?
Formally speaking, the Word grammar checker is right. The subject of there were is the word half , which is singular. So under formal grammar the sentence should be:
There was half a dozen books on the floor.
However, many people find this sentence to be odd in practice, since English speakers often prefer "semantic number agreement", in which the effective plurality of a phrase is determined by its meaning and not the grammatical number of its head. Therefore, for many registers people prefer your original example:
There were half a dozen books on the floor.
If you're writing something formal and can't abide to say there was half a dozen , then rephrase the sentence to avoid phrases like half a dozen .
It is throwing that because of the grammatical number of half . You are correct that were should be used—the grammar checker isn't smart enough to detect this.
I’m sorry, but I believe the accepted answer is wrong.
The “half (of) a NUMBER ” construct works like “a lot of SOMETHING ” or “a few of SOMETHING ” does, in that the verb should agree with the number of the noun that follows those constructs, not with something like half or lot or few , even though each of those is by itself nominally singular.
This is what is called a predeterminer , and it does not affect the grammatical concordance of the noun it modifies with that noun’s verb. In works like an adjectival phrase, if you would. From Cognitive English Grammar , by Günter Radden and René Dirven :
More rarely, a quantifier occurs before a determiner; in this function quantifiers are usually described as predeterminers . . . . More rarely, a quantifier may precede an indefinite determiner as in half a dozen or half a million , where the quantifier half describes a clear subset of a well-defined set.
You can find no end of examples in examples of such things retaining their plural number in printed literature, and none of them becoming singular. Here are just a few:
Readers and posters here seem to be concerned with whether predeterminer half used with a plural Noun Phrase should be regarded as singular or plural.I thought some hard talking facts might be in order to resolve this issue.
A Google search for:
"over half the people was"
... with the phrase in quotation marks as in the example, returned a staggering three hits! Two of these were along the lines of "the average age of over half the people was 2.14..." So that reduces it to one valid hit of the type with which we're concerned here.
On the other hand the same search for:
"over half the people were"
... gives a return of 245, 000 results. Now on the basis that grammar is what people actually do when they speak, this means that Over half the people were is 245,000,000 % more likely to be grammatical than Over half the people is .
If further evidence is required, the number of instances of Over half the people were from Google books is 2,100. The number of instances of Over half the people was , surprisingly, is 1 . However, this single example on close inspection turns out to be in the form of the following:
The standard of living for over half the people was beneath what would have been considered enough for an animal in France or England.
Here the subject of was is the non-countable Noun Phrase standard of living . This reassuringly puts the number of published examples of Over half the people was - specifically of the type we're after - at zero.
So purely on an empirical basis, we can discard any notion of Over half the people grammatically occurring with a singular verb form! Full stop. Over and out!
[However, there is an interesting side story here because of the the existential sentence in the OP's question. It used to be, and to a certain extent still is , common to find existential "there was" used with a following plural Noun Phrase. Thousand upon thousand of such examples are to be found in print and even in scholarly works.]
To say it in short form - You can agree the verb form with half, that's more a grammatical agreement, and you can agree it with books, that's a more logical agreement. And people prefer the logical agreement.
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The usage of singular and plural verbs in English is sometimes more complicated than in other languages. One example of this phenomenon is the phrase “a lot of”.
Usually, when something has an indefinite article, i.e. “a” or “an”, it is followed by a singular verb, for example “a tree is”, not “a tree are”. However, “a lot of” is used in a way similar to collective nouns — when we talk about several objects, e.g. “a lot of trees”, we use plural verbs, e.g. “a lot of trees are”, not “is”:
Another way to look at this is that in English, unlike many other languages, the subject doesn’t have to be in the nominative (grammatically, “of trees” is in the genitive). In sentences like the above, you should ask yourself: “what has been planted?” Since the answer is “new trees” and you would say “new trees have”, that’s the verb form you should use, regardless of what precedes the trees.
“A lot of” can be used also for non-countable nouns, i.e. nouns describing a substance or a material, such as “water”, “sand”, “iron” etc. In this case, since the noun is in the singular, so is the verb:
By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English ? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
Renting your home to strangers for money wasn't even on the horizon when my husband and I bought our first house almost 20 years ago.
But the little bungalow in Louisville, Kentucky , wasn't far from the racetrack where the famous Kentucky Derby runs every May. I thought renting our house to race-goers would be an easy way to make a quick paycheck.
So in 2007, before Airbnb was even invented , we'd started what would eventually be called house-hacking — renting your own home to generate income to pay for itself. We could earn enough over the race weekend to cover three months of mortgage.
It didn't go well at first, though, with our first guests writing us a bad check. So when Airbnb came along with some guardrails to protect hosts, we were super early adopters.
Although it's commonplace now, in those early days, friends thought we'd lost it when we let strangers stay in our house. "What if they lick your plates and put them back?" I'll always remember one aghast friend asking.
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Renting out that house led to the idea that we could Airbnb a $17,000 triplex in Detroit we bought in 2014 after I fell in love with the city while visiting. We were able to use the income to recoup the renovation costs, and we double-dipped by renting our Louisville house anytime we were in Detroit . We divided our time between cities, keeping that house for a year and a half. That experience propelled us to buy a sprawling Victorian in a historic neighborhood of Louisville in 2016.
"We could Airbnb the shit out of this!" my husband's text read when he sent me the $200,000 listing. A beautiful house that just needed some work, with a third floor guest suite and a carriage house, it had tons of potential as a short-term rental rental. We estimated we could probably cover the renovation cost and maybe even the mortgage with the income . Income that we thought would be passive.
It didn't turn out to be passive, though, at least when it came to the amount of work and worry that went into eventually becoming one of Airbnb's longest-tenured super hosts. Even switching to renting to travel nurses during COVID didn't come without stress, and we eventually sold the house in 2023.
I've been househunting and have lost count of the number of listings I've seen promising income from short-term rentals.
Now, we're not in the old days anymore, and most cities have licensing requirements for short-term rentals that restrict the number in any given area and impose tax collections. But not everyone plays by those rules, and sometimes, listing agents on behalf of sellers promote this revenue stream on houses that don't have the required license — and aren't even eligible for one.
After spending a lot of money and time getting the legal permits and licenses for my home, I think this practice is pretty unsavory — especially from a profession that's supposed to have strict ethical guidelines. Even when the listing truly does have legal income potential, it's not a magic bullet or a fast path to riches.
Maybe rentals can be considered passive by IRS definitions, but here's the truth from someone who's been doing this for more than 15 years: rentals are endless work.
Not just the cleaning, or calendar management, or the trying to delight guests or respond to issues. It's also the emotional labor of worrying about reviews. You're only ever as good as your last two or three, and I stressed every detail trying to keep up my all-five-star superhost status.
Owning a home built in the late 1800s can be a source of worry in the best of circumstances. However, inviting a rotating cast of strangers under the roof, strangers who can leave reviews that can make or break your business, brings its own host of additional worries.
Just like I could never turn off my phone in case a guest needed something, I couldn't turn off the worry, either.
When it rained, I worried about leaks — which happened. When it was cold, I worried about the mini-split HVAC going out, which it did — on a freezing Christmas Day. When it was hot, I worried the AC couldn't keep up — which it often couldn't in a 130-year-old third-floor space where guests thought they could set the temperature to 60 on 100-degree days.
But the money was good when it was good , so it was worth it. Until competition ratcheted up, and with that, a push from Airbnb to discount prices. Even before COVID, I'd grown tired of their incessant reminders to cut my price. So when the pandemic hit, I made the pivot to renting to travel nurses at my two spaces. That wasn't a ton less money, but a lot less work. Instead of doing laundry and cleaning and answering a fresh batch of questions every two or three days, it was every three months.
To anyone tempted to buy a property just for its rental potential, I say proceed with caution.
Do your own homework to make sure you can legally rent it; don't rely on the listing claims. Check local listings to see how much competition you'll have and how much they're getting. Consider how much time you can siphon from your other job to run your rental, and what that will cost. Evaluate your budget to make sure you can carry the mortgage indefinitely if misfortune — pandemic, natural disaster, terrorist attack, major repairs, a pest infestation — strikes and you lose that income.
As for me, my new home is a single family. Nope, no income to subsidize the mortgage, but also no suitcases rolling around above my bedroom, no nagging worry about what-ifs, and nobody to worry about pleasing but, well, myself.
Axel Springer, Insider Inc.'s parent company, is an investor in Airbnb.
A New Hampshire man was arrested Tuesday in Lawrence and now faces a murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a temple in Lowell on Saturday , officials announced.
Paul Garcia, 38, of Dover, New Hampshire, is also charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery by discharge of a firearm, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Greg Hudon said in a joint statement.
On Saturday at around 4:53 a.m., Lowell police learned of shots fired in the parking lot of the Swaminarayan Temple on Middlesex Street. When officers arrived they found 30 people had gathered in the parking lot and were directed to two men who had been shot, according to the statement. Both men were taken to a hospital.
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WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris had one great day in her ill-fated 2020 presidential campaign: her first.
Then came a rapid collapse.
The freshman senator who announced her candidacy in January 2019 before 20,000 cheering supporters in Oakland, California, dropped out in December before a single vote had been cast.
By the time she quit, Harris lacked money, a message and a cohesive campaign operation — all ingredients of a successful candidacy.
It was a hard fall for someone whose youth and biracial identity evoked the appeal of the last Democratic president, Barack Obama.
“I have mixed emotions about it,” her rival and the eventual winner, Joe Biden, said upon hearing she had withdrawn from the Democratic nomination contest. He called her a “first-rate intellect.”
Now, Harris is set to get another shot. As the sitting vice president, she is a leading candidate to succeed Biden after his exit from the race, receiving his immediate endorsement. Other elected officials might step forward to challenge Harris, dividing Democrats and clouding the general election picture ahead of a November showdown with Donald Trump.
“I know there are people working behind the scenes who think she may not be the best one suited to take us to victory,” said Maria Cardona, a member of the Democratic National Committee’s rules panel, speaking before Biden's withdrawal. “If that is seen as a full-on, inorganic tactic that is being led by senior people within the Democratic Party, there will be a civil war inside the Democratic Party the likes of which we will not survive.”
With only a few months to wage a campaign against Trump, Harris couldn’t afford to repeat the mistakes that tanked her last presidential bid. There would be little time to recover. Hers would need to be a virtually error-free sprint to Election Day.
When Harris gave that announcement speech before a hometown crowd five years ago, her prospects seemed dazzling. A Monmouth University poll released the week after she entered the race showed her running third in a crowded Democratic field that eventually numbered more than two dozen. With 11% support, she trailed only Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, both of whom had run presidential races before.
Harris had earned her bona fides as a former prosecutor and had distinguished herself in Senate committees as a feared interrogator who could pick apart a witness’s testimony.
A pro-Harris super PAC prepared an ad that showed her grilling Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and two Trump-era attorneys general, William Barr and Jeff Sessions.
It never aired. On the day the $1 million ad buy was supposed to begin running, Harris dropped out.
Making the leap from state to national politics proved daunting for her. Rivals like Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren had spent much of their adult lives steeped in policy.
Harris hadn’t mastered policy questions that dominated the Democratic debates. She had originally backed Sanders’ “Medicare for all” plan, but later released her own version that carved out a continued role for private insurers.
She quickly faced incoming fire from the left and center of the ideological spectrum.
Sanders’ aides denounced her proposal as a “terrible policy.” Biden’s campaign joined the attack, warning that she would undercut Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act.
“She was trying to figure out where she landed in the primary field on a bunch of issues,” one of her former California campaign advisers said. As a state official, Harris “hadn’t had to deal with that level of nuance.”
Another policy stumble marred what seemed to be her breakthrough moment. In a debate in June, she attacked Biden for opposing school busing in the 1970s.
Harris mentioned a “little girl” in California who had been bused to school every day. “That little girl was me,” she said. Within hours of the exchange, her campaign triumphantly started selling “That little girl was me” T-shirts for $29.99 apiece.
But after the debate, she struggled to offer a consistent answer to whether she believed federally mandated busing should be used to integrate schools.
A Biden campaign aide seized on the equivocation, tweeting that she was “tying herself in knots trying not to answer the very question she posed” to Biden.
This time, instead of facing off against fellow Democrats, Harris would be able to elevate one to serve as her running mate. She would have a plethora of promising choices to balance the ticket, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, all of whom won in places where Trump performed well.
Admirers say that Harris has grown in the job. Early in her campaign, she traveled to South Carolina and spoke to a group of Democratic women.
“The woman that I met in early 2019 was not as confident and was significantly more tentative in the way she presented herself to potential voters,” Amanda Loveday, a senior adviser to a pro-Biden super PAC called Unite the Country, said before Biden withdrew.
While affirming she wanted Biden to remain at the top of the ticket, Loveday said of the vice president: “The woman I met back then is very different from the woman I see on TV today. She’s grown as a leader and she has developed more confidence.”
Both Harris’ government office and the Biden-Harris campaign declined to comment for this article before Biden's withdrawal.
A campaign is akin to an expensive startup business on a national scale. It needs an inspirational candidate, but it also relies on a unified staff. Harris didn’t have one. People close to the campaign say that lines of authority were blurred between Harris’ sister and campaign chairwoman, Maya Harris, and other advisers who’d worked on her state races but weren’t blood relatives.
In November 2019, a campaign staff member wrote a letter, obtained by The New York Times , that depicted a campaign in crisis.
“Campaigns have highs and lows, mistakes and miscalculations,” wrote Kelly Mehlenbacher. “But because we have refused to confront our mistakes, foster an environment of critical thinking and honest feedback, or trust the expertise of talented staff, we find ourselves making the same unforced errors over and over.”
By that point, Harris was running fifth, her poll numbers down to 6%. Money was dwindling, accelerating the downward spiral. That fall, Harris’ campaign laid off staff and moved others from her national headquarters in Baltimore to Iowa to save money.
Any hope of reviving her candidacy with a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses in January was short-lived. On Dec. 3, Harris dropped out. She emailed staff that she “simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
A Harris sequel would look nothing like the original, former advisers said. She’d be buoyed by a Democratic Party that would coalesce behind her, desperate to defeat Trump. Donors who’ve bailed on Biden might take a fresh look at the race with a younger candidate atop the ticket.
She would also likely inherit the parts of Biden’s campaign that are working — like the massive field and data operation s that are designed to drive voter turnout. While Biden’s most senior aides would likely be gone, many rank-and-file campaign staff with long resumes may choose to remain.
Harris’ background as a prosecutor could prove advantageous in a future debate. Rather than sparring with fellow Democrats over health care and education policy, she would be boring in on Trump’s criminal conviction in Manhattan.
“Literally everything” would be different, starting with her pitch to voters, a longtime Harris adviser told NBC News. “It is a three-month sprint and not a two-year slog.”
Peter Nicholas is a senior White House reporter for NBC News.
Katherine Doyle is a White House reporter for NBC News.
A 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania fired multiple shots at former President Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday evening.
A bullet grazed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's upper right ear , leaving him bloodied but not seriously injured. One rally attendee was killed in the gunfire and two others were "critically injured," authorities later said.
Here's what we know:
The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the person behind the assassination attempt. Agency officials released little additional information, saying its investigation remains active and ongoing. They did not indicate what Crooks' motive might have been.
Crooks worked at a nearby nursing home. An administrator there told USA TODAY that the company was shocked to learn of the shooting and that Crooks had passed a background check for his job.
During the shooting Saturday, Trump's right ear was injured, seconds before he was whisked off stage by Secret Service personnel. One man attending the rally was killed and two others were injured; Crooks was then killed by Secret Service agents , authorities said.
FBI special agent Kevin Rojek said on a call with media Sunday afternoon that authorities found "a suspicious device" when they searched the shooter's vehicle. Bomb technicians inspected the device and rendered it safe.
"I'm not in a position to provide any expertise on the specific components of any potential bombs or suspicious packages," Rojek added.
Rojek said law enforcement is sending the rifle and Crooks' cell phone, along with other evidence, to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia "for processing and exploitation."
"We're in the process of searching his phone," Rojek said.
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Crooks is registered to vote as a Republican in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, according to county voter records. His voter registration status has been active since 2021.
Federal Election Commission records show that in January 2021, Crooks made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project, a group working to increase voter turnout for Democrats.
Born Sept. 20, 2003, Crooks does not have a criminal record in Pennsylvania, nor has he been sued there, according to state court records. There is no record of him in federal court databases, either.
Crooks worked as a dietary aid, a job that generally involves food preparation, at Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, less than a mile from his home. In a statement provided to USA TODAY on Sunday, Marcie Grimm, the facility's administrator, said she was "shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement."
"Thomas Matthew Crooks performed his job without concern and his background check was clean," Grimm said. "We are fully cooperating with law enforcement officials at this time. Due to the ongoing investigation, we cannot comment further on any specifics. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Former President Trump and the victims impacted by this terrible tragedy. We condemn all acts of violence."
The facility is owned by Kennett Square, Pennsylvania-based Genesis Healthcare. A job posting from the company for a dietary aid in the Pittsburgh area puts the pay at $16 an hour.
Crooks' home address is listed in Bethel Park, a suburb in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, voter records show. That three-bedroom brick house has been owned since 1998 by Matthew and Mary Crooks, who appear to be his parents. Telephone calls to the couple were not returned overnight.
Near the Crooks home, Dean Sierka, 52, said he had known Crooks and his parents for years, as neighbors separated by only a few houses. Sierka’s daughter attended school with Crooks from elementary school through Bethel Park High School, and said she remembers him as quiet and shy.
Dean and his daughter said they would see Crooks at least once a week, often when Crooks was walking to work.
“You wouldn’t have expected this,” Dean Sierka said. “The parents and the family are all really nice people.”
Thomas Crooks graduated two years ago from Bethel Park High School, the Bethel Park School District confirmed. He was included in a 2022 local news article about recipients of a National Math & Science Initiative Star Award at the public high school, which enrolls about 1,300 students.
Jason Kohler attended Bethel Park High School with Crooks and said he remembers the 20-year-old sat alone at lunch and was “bullied almost every day.” Kids picked on Crooks for wearing camouflage to class and his quiet demeanor, Kohler, 21, said.
Since hearing Crooks has been named as the shooter, Kohler has been speaking with classmates who knew him, most of whom are stunned by the news.“It’s really hard to comprehend,” he said.
Sean Eckert said he went to school with Crooks from 5th through 12th grade. He said Crooks always went by “Tom.“
They shared classes together in elementary and middle school. Eckert said Crooks, though "fairly smart," was quiet and rarely spoke up.
Eckert said Crooks did not seem to have many friends. He didn't recall Crooks being playing any sports, being involved in any clubs or student groups or going to popular campus events. He often wore hunting clothes, so Eckert assumed he hunted.
No one in Eckert's group text from high school seemed to know Crooks very well, he said. They were shocked that someone from their town had done this. They were even more surprised that it was Tom Crooks.
Nursing aide turned sniper: Thomas Crooks' mysterious plot to kill Trump
The gaming-oriented online site Discord said Sunday that it had found an account that appeared to be linked to the shooting suspect. The site removed the account, which “was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence, or discuss his political views,“ according to a statement from a Discord spokesperson, adding that the company will coordinate closely with law enforcement.
Crooks was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, a shooting club about 8 miles from his home. It is a sprawling complex of 180 acres with rifle, pistol and archery ranges, an area for dog training and a clubhouse, according to the club website.An attorney for the club, Robert Bootay III, confirmed Crooks' membership in an email to USA TODAY, but would not offer additional details.
Bethel Park is a suburb of Pittsburgh and home to more than 32,000 people – about one thousand fewer than four years ago, according to the latest Census estimates.
The majority-white, mostly college-educated community has a median household income of $102,177.
Described as a charming retreat from the hustle and bustle of the big city to its north, Bethel Park boasts tree-line streets, friendly neighborhoods and a low crime rate.
Bethel Park is about 42 miles south of Butler, where the Trump rally was held. The leafy suburban street was alive with law enforcement overnight amid a multi-agency response to the shooting. A member of the Allegheny County bomb squad told reporters his team was headed into the house around midnight, but did not say why.
For hours afterward, the scene remained quiet, with deer passing under the police tape and an occasional neighbor stepping out of their house to see what was happening.
John Wolf, a local construction superintendent who lives down the road, said he’d talked with several worried neighbors.
“People are scared,” Wolf said.
Crooks had been positioned on a rooftop more than 100 yards from the rally site, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said. Law enforcement recovered an AR-style rifle from the scene.
Joseph Price, special agent in charge of the ATF in Pittsburgh, said the weapon used by the shooter was a rifle.“It was nothing special,” he said in an interview in the parking lot of the Butler Township Municipal Building.
Law enforcement is following up on a “number of suspicious occurrences,” said Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police, including accounts from witnesses who said they tried to flag police about the activity of a person outside the rally moments before the shooting.
The FBI said in a news release that the situation “remains an active and ongoing investigation, and anyone with information that may assist with the investigation is encouraged to submit photos or videos online at FBI.gov/butler or call 1-800-CALL-FBI.”
Contributing: Stephanie Warsmith, Tim Evans, Aysha Bagchi, Jessica Guynn, Bryce Buyakie
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An EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 100 mph, path length of 5.6 miles and maximum width of 100 yards started on the northwest side of Elburn and lifted before Peck road. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of downed trees and damage to farm buildings. A metal farm building was destroyed at the Hickory Lane Equestrian Center. |
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As strong straight-line winds were entering St. Charles, a brief EF-0 tornado spun up just north of Route 38 east of Peck Road. The tornado tracked southeastward to just southeast of the intersection of Randall Road and Route 38, causing roof damage to a Metro Self Storage building, damaging a greenhouse and tossing shopping cart corrals around at a Meijer, knocking over a light pole, and snapping and uprooting multiple trees. Damage beyond the Tri-City Shopping Center then appeared to transition to straight-line wind damage. |
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An EF-0 tornado began at Midway Airport and tracked east-northeastward through the West Elsdon, Gage Park, New City, and Fuller Park community areas of Chicago, where it primarily caused tree and minor roof damage to homes. The tornado then crossed I-90/I-94, producing additional instances of tree damage as it tracked through the Grand Boulevard and Kenwood community areas before it tracked out over Lake Michigan. Just as the tornado was about to begin, surveillance video at Midway Airport showed strong winds turning a 737 airplane clockwise 90 degrees, causing its left wing to slam into the jet bridge that it was stationed at. |
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Montréal, QC. U.S.A. & Canada, English. Aug 10, 2008. #4. "There were a lot of people" is the only option that is considered formally correct - of course, in speaking we might say "There was..." (we do this regardless of the "a lot", but more frequently in the present : "There's two books on the table") - but this is not considered "correct".
In each of the pairs of sentences above, the first one refers to something that actually happened in the past, and the word "was" is the correct choice. The second sentence is a wish or a speculation - it refers to an event that did not actually happen, and "were" is the correct choice. They were the winning team, so they celebrated ...
Were is used in the second person singular and plural (you, your, yours) and first and third person plural (we, they).. The forms that was and were will take in your sentence are summarized in the chart below,. Singular = I was, You were, He was, She was, It was. Plural = We were, You were, They were. I was driving to the park. You were drinking some water. He was about to eat dinner.
21 Oct 2020. English (US) a lot of homework has been done is the correct one. have been done would be used with plural nouns. > "a lot of things have been done". See a translation. 2 likes. Highly-rated answerer. Emmaa97.
The correct phrase here is 'I have a lot of homework.' 'Homework' is an uncountable noun; it doesn't have a plural form. It's always used in the singular form, even when referring to multiple assignments. Thanks to TextRanch, I was able to score above 950 on TOEIC, and I got a good grade on ACTFL OPIC as well. — Alan, Student.
Yes, and the stories we hear of kids being stressed out from too much homework—four or five hours of homework a night—are real. That's problematic for physical and mental health and overall well-being. But the research shows that higher-income students get a lot more homework than lower-income kids.
One teacher proposed "homework" consisting of after-school "field trips to the woods, factories, museums, libraries, art galleries.". In 1937, Carleton Washburne, an influential educator who was the superintendent of the Winnetka, Illinois, schools, proposed a homework regimen of "cooking and sewing…meal planning…budgeting, home ...
Existential there has no special rules when it comes to the subjunctive. Just as "he was" becomes "he were" in the subjunctive, "there was" becomes "there were.". So the answer to ...
There were three worms in my salad. There was a hamburger on this plate. There were two hamburgers on this plate. Let's quickly recap what a plural is so that we know when to use "were" instead of "was.". Simply put, a plural noun is a word that refers to more than one thing — person, place, animal, idea, etc.
You did the washing. They did the dishes. On the other hand, "does" is the present tense, and when the subject is a pronoun such as "he", "she", or "it" or a proper noun, the third person of do (third person, singular, present tense). "Does" is used. She does homework.
While a singular verb is appropriate with nouns that define the plural into a singular group, "a lot of" refers to a quantity rather than a grouped unit - modifying the noun as "many" would. So the verb agrees with the noun that "a lot of" qualifies, rather than "a lot". We can therefore have either "are a lot of" or "is ...
Saying "a" homework contradicts its nature of being indefinite by assigning a size to something that is arbitrary. For example, you can say that I have seven "assignments", but I cannot say that I have seven "homeworks". (Depending on what your native language is, this may or may not feel natural) Share. Improve this answer.
There was a lot of homework bc homework doesn't have a plural :) Sign up; Sign in; Question Updated on 15 Aug 2018 Velouria. 11 May 2017. Spanish (Spain) English (US) Question about English (US) How do you say this in English (US)? "there were a lot of homework" or "there was a lot of homework" ... "there were a lot of homework" or "there was a ...
In this case, both was and were are in the past tense. A main difference is that one ( was) is singular, and the other ( were) is often plural. If was is past-tense singular, then it refers to one person or object being in a previous moment or time. Karen was tired, so she took a nap. (She felt tired at a time before the present.)
In a recent study of Spanish students, Rubén Fernández-Alonso, PhD, and colleagues found that students who were regularly assigned math and science homework scored higher on standardized tests. But when kids reported having more than 90 to 100 minutes of homework per day, scores declined (Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015).
In negative sentences, we use many with countable nouns, and much with uncountable nouns. We don't have many books. (= We have a small number.) I don't have much money. (= I have a small amount.) We can also use a lot of/lots of in negative sentences with countable or uncountable nouns. We don't eat lots of potatoes.
Not half a hundred people were the better for the gain or loss. Not half-a-dozen men agree to this hour on the cause of merits. . . . Here were half a hundred boys not looking for favors or tips at this season of the year when the average individual is inclined to be generous, but half a hundred boys who were out the help others. . . .
However, "a lot of" is used in a way similar to collective nouns — when we talk about several objects, e.g. "a lot of trees", we use plural verbs, e.g. "a lot of trees are", not "is": correct A lot of new trees have been planted in our town. wrong A lot of new trees has been planted in our town.
That wasn't a ton less money, but a lot less work. Instead of doing laundry and cleaning and answering a fresh batch of questions every two or three days, it was every three months.
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It would involve massive uncertainty and, frankly, a whole lot of unnecessary work. At least since 2010 , Olympic forecasts, whatever their inputs, have generally made similar predictions.