Several centimetres of snow _____ fallen. |
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Votes: 269
Comments: 7
Added: March 2005
| Deen - 17th April 2005 15:50 |
| Snow has fallen. IT has fallen, no matter how many cm's. It's the snow that's fallen, not the centimeters! |
| MrTrilby - 31st January 2006 17:59 |
| Disagree, Deen. In *this* sentence, it is the cms that have fallen. In the sentence "A lot of snow has fallen", it's the snow. |
| Trish - 20th December 2006 06:37 |
| Yes, aside from that the word several was used in the sentence. |
| Gardemarine - 11th January 2007 02:25 |
| It's the centimeters that make up snow, not snow makes up centimeters. Therefore, centimeters is the main object in this sentence. So, centimeters are the ones who have fallen. It's funny, but it's true. |
| Agnes - 30th November 2008 22:16 |
| No matter how we look at it, its the snow that has fallen not the measure of the snow. |
| Robert Jones - 7th January 2009 19:13 |
| The question is one of grammar, not one of fact. As a matter of fact, it is the snow, and not the centimetres, which falls. However, grammatically, the subject of the sentence is the plural noun "centimetres", so a plural verb is required. |
| wangui - 16th January 2009 15:41 |
| snow is an uncountable noun, so the content is taken as an unit |
