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How To Read Years in English?

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Who Are OR Who Is?

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ESL people are sometimes at a loss about the correct SVA (Subject Verb Agreement) aspect of sentences with "who." There are two angles to look at this question from. 1. Where only "Who IS" right! Suppose you are walking into a room where a number of people are present. Would you use a singular verb or a plual verb in these sentences? Who is/are interested in Football? Who wants snacks? Who is eating pizza tonight? Even if you are asking this question to a group of people and sure that there will be more than one person as an answer, you are supposed to use A SINGULAR VERB. It is because we donot know the number of people beforehand. 2. Where only "Who ARE" right! However, there are instances where you need to use a plural verb. It is when you know the number of people in advance. In fact, here, you are not trying to count the people, but rather you want to know the names or something of those persons. Suppose you are going to a restaurant and see two peopl...
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English Grammar Lesson 1: Simple Sentence Structure in English - SVO, SVC

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INTRODUCTION A sentence structure means a particular order in which words need to be arranged in order to form a meaningful sentence. There are several sentence structures in the English language for you to make up a sentence. The same idea can be put in different structures. SVO Sentence Structure SVO is structure is one of the most commonly used sentence structure in the English. S stands for the SUBJECT of the sentence. Subject is the person or the thing that does the action in the sentence or what the verb is about. V stands for the VERB of the sentence. Verb is the action that is carried out by the subject of the sentence or the what connects the subject to the complement (adjectives or other extra information about the subject). O stands for the OBJECT of the sentence. Object is the person or the thing that is affected by the action of the subject. Not all sentences should necessarily have an object; it is added if there is one. Sentences with intransitive verbs, for one, will ha...
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