Originally posted by Tassie~Cyanide~
hi, what's up?
Hi Tassie 😄
lol -
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/quotes/georgewbush.html
http://www.politicalhell.com/bush-quotes.htm
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" Let us analyze that sentence for a moment. If you're a stickler, you probably think the singular verb "is" should have been the plural "are," but if you read it closely, you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense. So the word "is" are correct.
That's the one I was thinking og. Thank you.
Children is a plural term. The verb being uses needs to be plural. The verb at hand is the verb "to be". To be conjugates like this
I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
They are
Therefore, we would use the form "are"
The statement should be: "Are our children learning?"
Originally posted by Agent Elrond
That's the one I was thinking og. Thank you.Children is a plural term. The verb being uses needs to be plural. The verb at hand is the verb "to be". To be conjugates like this
I am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
They areTherefore, we would use the form "are"
The statement should be: "Are our children learning?"
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Originally posted by Agent Elrond
Children is a plural term. The verb being uses needs to be plural. The verb at hand is the verb "to be". To be conjugates like thisI am
You are
He/She/It is
We are
They areTherefore, we would use the form "are"
The statement should be: "Are our children learning?"
Whoa that sounds exactly like the endless grammar we had to learn in the first year of English 😐
Of course it has to be "are";
His argumentation was that its an "intransitive plural subjunctive tense"; intransitive meaning that it can take no direct subject, but that has nothing to do with the is-or-are-question, it's just important for the passive mood; subjunctive is nearly not existent in english anymore; it would for example be used in "I wish you WERE here"; in this case it sounds the same as the indicative, "You were here" though. Never takes the form "is" I think 😑 you'd also say "I wish he were here", right? 😕
Originally posted by Exabyte
Hi Tassie 😄lol -
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/quotes/georgewbush.html
http://www.politicalhell.com/bush-quotes.htm"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
lol, those are great
Originally posted by Exabyte
Whoa that sounds exactly like the endless grammar we had to learn in the first year of English 😐Of course it has to be "are";
His argumentation was that its an "intransitive plural subjunctive tense"; intransitive meaning that it can take no direct subject, but that has nothing to do with the is-or-are-question, it's just important for the passive mood; subjunctive is nearly not existent in english anymore; it would for example be used in "I wish you WERE here"; in this case it sounds the same as the indicative, "You were here" though. Never takes the form "is" I think 😑 you'd also say "I wish he were here", right? 😕
umm 😑
I got an 85 in English 😖mart:
I would *hope* to know more about English, since I've been speaking it all my life.
Originally posted by Agent Elrond
lol, those are great
Me likes them 😛
"But I also made it clear to (Vladimir Putin) that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe." 😆
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." 😖
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
😄 😄 😄 😄
"you misunderestimate me" - 😑