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Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: shibli on August 30, 2009, 12:13:19 PM

Title: Learn English Grammar
Post by: shibli on August 30, 2009, 12:13:19 PM

Usually the following terms take singular verbs

The majority believes that he is good
The committee consists of five members

The Majority/Minority + Of the +Plural count noun +Plural verb
The majority                 of the         people                believe      it

The Majority/Minority + Of the +Non-count noun +Singular verb
The majority                 of the         milk                   is               bad

Title: Re: Learn English Grammar
Post by: shibli on August 30, 2009, 12:14:57 PM

Collective Nouns or Non-countable Nouns

Advice
Anger
Ashes
Beauty
Bread
Butter
Clothing
Courage
Damage

Equipment
Fun
Furniture
Grass
Ice
Ignorance
Information
Iron
Jewelry
Knowledge
Leisure
Luck
Luggage
Machinery
Mail
Measles
Meat
Milk

Staff

Title: Re: Learn English Grammar
Post by: shibli on August 30, 2009, 12:15:45 PM

Money
Mums
Music
News
Oil
Oxygen
Paper
Patience
Peace
Permission
Poetry
Poverty
Progress
Rice
Sand
Smoke
Steam
Sugar
Tea
Toast
Water
Wood

Title: Re: Learn English Grammar
Post by: shibli on August 31, 2009, 12:59:14 PM

A (total) number of is plural
A total number of 500 people are……

The  (total) number of is singular

The total number of 500 people is……

Sub + Used to + Verb present form
He         used to              go

Sub + Get used to + Verb gerund form
He             got used to      going

Sub + Be verb + Used to + Verb gerund form
He           was            used to          going