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23-Oct-2006, 22:46
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Current Location: England Native Language: English Member Type: Student or Learner | |  Re: A common error that is driving me nuts!
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Originally Posted by Tdol  Should a curmudgeon encourage people towards life?  | Bah Humbug!  |
24-Oct-2006, 05:23
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Current Location: Detroit, Michigan Native Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: A common error that is driving me nuts!
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Originally Posted by curmudgeon Bah Humbug! | Let's face it...if some of us got a life outside of the ESL Forum, we'd have people "snucking" all over the place!  |
24-Oct-2006, 06:01
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Current Location: Tokyo Native Language: English Member Type: English Teacher | | Re: A common error that is driving me nuts!
Snucking humbug. |
24-Oct-2006, 08:09
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in fact, such problem is common in English teaching in china, we often regard the amount of money as a whole,it is the same with length and weight, in such cases, we should use singular:there is twenty pounds/there is a hundred pound. or there is ten metres. And about the the collective noun "team" (same as family, police, cow...), we use singular when we regard it as a whole: The family goes to Beijing every year.(that indicates the family as whole go to Beijing). cf: The family get their presents from Father Christmas. (the family here indicates all the members/each member of the family, so we regard it as a plural. Except the special occassion mentioned above, in other case, the predicate must be decided by the following real subject. This is what the grammar book teach me. |
24-Oct-2006, 10:24
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There's nothing wrong with that, though you will hear British English speakers, and BrE tends to be the form taught in the EU, use different forms. |
24-Oct-2006, 16:56
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Originally Posted by sallyhoudongmei in fact, such problem is common in English teaching in china, we often regard the amount of money as a whole,it is the same with length and weight, in such cases, we should use singular:there is twenty pounds/there is a hundred pound. or there is ten metres. And about the the collective noun "team" (same as family, police, cow...), we use singular when we regard it as a whole: The family goes to Beijing every year.(that indicates the family as whole go to Beijing). cf: The family get their presents from Father Christmas. (the family here indicates all the members/each member of the family, so we regard it as a plural. Except the special occassion mentioned above, in other case, the predicate must be decided by the following real subject. This is what the grammar book teach me. | That is basically the way it is in American English.  | | |
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