[General] There's no such thing as ghosts

[Ferdie11]

Hi,

Please help me with this:

There's no such thing as ghosts. - Is this correct with the verb ghosts (plural)
It's about time you got a haircut. - Why the verb got is used in this sentence?
Finally, they had a meal fit for a king. - Is the fit used correctly in this sentence?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[lauralie2]

There's no such thing as ghosts. :tick:

• Contracted "There's" is OK with plural nouns.

It's about time you got a haircut. :tick:

• "got" is another way of saying "had".

Finally, they had a meal fit for a king. :tick:

 

[Ferdie11]

There's no such thing as ghosts. :tick:

• Contracted "There's" is OK with plural nouns.

It's about time you got a haircut. :tick:

• "got" is another way of saying "had".

Finally, they had a meal fit for a king. "tick:

I still don't understand what you want to say about the last sentence. Could you please elaborate?

 

[Barb_D]

There was a formatting error.

"tick: was supposed to be : tick : (without the spaces), which is this :tick: when you take away the spaces.

I fixed the formatting error.

 

[e2e4]

/A learner/

Hi,

Please help me with this:

There's no such thing as ghosts. - Is this correct with the verb ghosts (plural)
It's about time you got a haircut. - Why the verb got is used in this sentence?
Finally, they had a meal fit for a king. - Is the fit used correctly in this sentence?

Thanks in advance for your help.

It's time you had a haircut. (You should have had it before the moment of speaking. "had" represents the unreal past.)

In addition, is it possible to say

Finally, they had a meal that fit the king. or Finally, they had a meal that would fit a king.
fit ~ suitable for something
Could a king be that something?