Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is when plurals have no singular. A listener named Brent called in with this question: I have a question: how come pants, trousers, slacks, corduroys are all plurals even though there is only one of them? Guest writer

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is when plurals have no singular. A listener named Brent called in with this question: I have a question: how come pants, trousers, slacks, corduroys are all plurals even though there is only one of them? Guest writer

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will help us talk about tricky sentences that make you question whether you should use a singular or plural verb. Today were talking about a tricky kind of sentence that causes you to make a mistake

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is collective nouns, nouns that describe a group, such as family, orchestra, and board. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, There are around 200 collective nouns in the English language (1). Sometimes they take a singul

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is generic personal pronouns. Nolan in Victoria, British Columbia, asked the following question: Just wondering about whether to use she or he in terms of giving examples. Since she was written out of the literature f

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. We've received several requests to address Latin plurals, so today we're going to tackle a tricky one. A listener called with this request: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Adam from Peoria. I was wondering if you could go over the usage

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