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Which of these is grammatically correct?
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You know it is B because if you take out "Matt", which makes more sense?
a) Do you want to go with I to the restaurant?
b) Do you want to go with me to the restaurant?
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Is America going to war?
America is the continent, are all the American Countries going to war?
Or the popularly used America (to name the USA) is going to war?
If you name a team do you use singular?
I don't think so: the Detroit Tigers are going to play when the season starts.
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Is America going to war?
America is the continent, are all the American Countries going to war?
Or the popularly used America (to name the USA) is going to war?
If you name a team do you use singular?
I don't think so: the Detroit Tigers are going to play when the season starts.
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no2 vaporizer
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Upon reflection (and a Google search), I believe the OP is correct in saying that B is proper.
B the correct grammatical form. I do agree however that collective nouns are a bit tricky to figure; 'are' as opposed to 'is'...
No-one does.
I am going to the restaurant.
Matt and I are going to the restaurant.
I shall re-post my goats explanation:
I like goats.
Matt and I like goats.
Do you want to feed the goats with me?
Do you want to feed the goats with Matt and me?
Hmmm, I was always taught that a is the correct form although in normal speech I would use b...
a just doesn't sound right anymore..
Or maybe I'm thinking of 'Matt and I are going to....'
I wouldn't say 'Matt and me are...'
B, because the United States is treated as a collective noun (the army is well armed, the team has new equipment).
With yolk, the answer is always "is" because yolk is a collective noun like water. Ie, if the sentence was "the yolk of 10 eggs is yellow" 'is' is the correct verb because the number of eggs is locked up in a prepositional phrase. Only if we count the yolks do we use "are."
Contrary to my gut instinct (which is B) I'm going to go with D because there is rule with who/whom regarding the positioning of the object in relation to the subject. I think D fits into that narrow exception where "who" is technically correct even though it is acting as a direct object.
Fewer is for countable things (fewer cars, fewer horses, fewer tired horses) and less is for things that cannot be counted (less courage, less water, less work).
The team's name is plural. Manchester United is going to win a cup.
Yolk is not, and never has been, a collective noun. One yolk, many yolks.
James, while John had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had the teacher's approval.
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I propose that 'that' can be repeated indefinitely.
The sentence above containing 'that 'that'' that I just wrote is grammatically correct.
The sentence above containing ''that 'that'' that' that I just wrote is grammatically correct.
The sentence above containing '''that 'that'' that' that' that I just wrote is grammatically correct.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
B.
we were told by our english teacher, a while ago in fact, that you should remove the 3rd person, and just say it ...and me... instead if ...and I...
it's wrong if it's and I in this case.
we were told by our english teacher, a while ago in fact, that you should remove the 3rd person, and just say it ...and me... instead if ...and I...
it's wrong if it's and I in this case.
Sainsburys stock fewer coffees than Marks and Sparks.
Excellent example. Both "less coffee" and "fewer coffees" are grammatically correct, but they change the meaning of the sentence (3 tons is less than 5 tons, 12 different coffees are fewer than 13 different coffees).
Wait a minute, maybe I missed something, but if "Manchester United" is plural, then the correct usage would "are going to win." In British English usage, I'd expect the team name to be treated as a plural, but not in American English, where collective nouns are generally treated as singular by convention.
Quite apart from the convention being different on each side of the pond, "Manchester United" is a singular form of team name, whereas "Detroit Tigers" is a plural form, so I would expect the verb following to be in plural form even over there - which was my point. "The team's name" refers to the Detroit Tigers in the quote. The Manchester United example was my example of a singular form with a singular verb for the benefit of your compatriots, though "MU are going to win the cup" would be more common over here. Separated by a common language indeed.
Not one sentence.
James, while John had had "had had", had had "had had": "had had" had the teacher's approval.