Are there any questions i should be asking I am adding it back in as a comment, since the new header makes it impossible to find using a google search. Is there any articles available on the subject
My instinct is that in the two questions above, it should be 'are' as the subjects of the sentences ( I noticed the subject title changed from it's original blank, blank, and i am/are… Although the pattern of writing a word like option (s) is called paranthetic plurals, the word is both singular and plural
Is it correct to say, the team that will be attending with me is listed below Or should i say the team that will be attending with me are listed below Which is correct in the following example The following staff are/is (?) absent today
John doe jane doe bob doe Sometimes, we need to end sentences with is or are to avoid repetition, but is it correct in formal language I will make sure you. I was just wondering, how can we differentiate are you done? and have you done?, and what is the appropriate way to use each?
The term auxiliary verb applies to verbs, such as forms of be, have, and do, that conjoin with another verb to add syntactic or semantic information, such as grammatical aspects like the progressive aspect or perfective aspect Be + present participle (e.g Each of my three pens is green is correct You're thinking of each of as something that gets tacked onto the beginning of the noun
But when you add each of to my three pens, my three pens becomes the object of the preposition of Each becomes the head of the subject So the verb agrees with that, and each is always singular Of pretty much always does this
Thanks to the responses, they cleared it up nicely