I recently discovered that the singular "band" can go together with plural verbs.  "band goes on tour" gets 11,700 results on google while "band go on tour" gets 31,900 results.  What's going on here?
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I'd say Microsoft have a way of bending the rules and I know that McLaren have won the championship. While this sounds strange, I believe it is correct English (sorry, I'm not native).   But when it's a small company, would you still use it this way? Is a company always plural, or are small companies singular? I.e., would you say Bakery Johnson makes fine bread or Bakery Johnson make fine bread? Is it My book seller, Woody's, have moved or is it has moved?
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I think I know that media is a plural word.  So then which of the following is correct?        All the media is...   All the media are...      When you search Google, both seem to appear at the same frequency.
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Which one is correct?         I go to school by foot.   I go to school on foot.       Are there instances when the expression by foot is preferred?    My last question is the following:   Why is the singular noun, foot, used?     If a person goes to school by bus/train/car they are using only one means of transport, they are travelling in one car not two. But people use both feet for walking, so why would the following expressions be ungrammatical?         I go to school by feet     I go to school on feet      I read the answers on this question  but they did not convince me.
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I listen to a podcast that I like, but every episodes ends with     Our listeners are what make [podcast name] possible.   which makes me cringe a little each time I hear it. Is it just me, or is the sentence wrong? And if so, what is the correct form - should both verbs be singular? And is there a difference between UK and US usage? (The podcast is based in the USA).  I found a , but it does not apply exactly (and the  only discusses cases where the sentence stars with a time interval).  Thank you.
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What is the correct verb tense for the phrase "all you need is", when what follows is a plural?   All you need is paintbrushes and paint. All you need are paintbrushes and paint.   Or is neither incorrect?  Both forms sound funny to me.  Google shows an order of magnitude more hits for  than , but the latter still has ~500K hits, so it seems that both forms are in common use.  (You can also examples of both usages in Google's "News" search.)    Consider a related example:   All is good. All are good.   Both forms are correct, but have slightly different meanings/contexts.  The first is correct if "all" refers to "everything" (singular); the second is correct if "all" refers to an implied concrete set of things, as in "all (the widgets) are good".  This line of reasoning seems to imply the latter form is correct, since "paintbrushes" are concrete things.  (And yet that seems to be the less popular form in common usage, judging by Google hits).
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Quoting :     The girls' and boys' teams are both in the playoffs. (Both girls and   boys have their own team--both have their own apostrophe.)       The girls   and boys' team is excited about being in the playoffs. (One team of   girls and boys--one apostrophe.)   Is there a sentence that could be formed using      girls' and boys' team &mdash; i.e. plural boys with apostrophe; plural girls  with apostrophe but a singular team?
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I've been doing proofreading on a beta site and there appears to be a typo. Is there any usage of "many a times" that is correct, or is it always wrong to apply a singular "a" to a plural noun?
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I was solving some general questions about plural and singular. Then I came across a specific type of questions that have a hard time understanding.  Peter and Danny (is/are) going on a walk.  --> here we use 'are' because the subject of the sentence is "Peter AND Danny"  Peter, along with 100 other village people, walks.  --> here, we use "walk's'" because the subject of the sentence is Peter(singluar).  But the problem here is, why is the subject of the first sentence plural, while the subject of the second sentence is singular? Both of the sentences seem to talk about more than one person doing the action (walking), and yet, the subject of the first sentence is pleura, and the subject of the second sentence is singular...   Is it because of the difference between 'and' and 'along with'? If so, what happens if I use 'with', 'or', 'combined with', and so on? In what situation, does the thing become singular or plural?  I know that 'each, every, any, group of people' these types of words and phrases are singular. But if there are other nouns or phrases that I may be confused (like the one written above), it would be very nice if you could mention or talk about such additional things, as it would help me learn more about subject verb agreement. Thank you!
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Well we know that is is the correct form for singular and are is the correct form for plural, right?  As such "There is a great pizza place in Chicago" would be correct in prose or dialogue as would "No, actually there are many great pizza places in Chicago."  However, I hear and occasionally myself say, "If you go to Gino's, I'd stick to the one downtown, but there's several locations now."  So my question is: Is this tense mismatch an eccentricity of speech, or is there any basis for this contraction of there's in plural?  Are you hungry now?  Edit: My question specifically asks for an irregular usage concern. Of course I know what it's supposed to say.
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I am not sure how to explain these phrases to a nonspeaker of English. Have all these examples the same form?  Get (v) married (v past participle)   or it is Get(v) married (adj)  ? Get (v) engaged (v past participle)                   engaged (adj)  ?   Get (v) divorced (v past participle)                  divorced (adj) ? Get (v) promoted (v past participle)                  promoted (adj) ?   Could somebody help me?
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I wonder which of the two is correct:        I have a red and a blue car.   I have a red and a blue cars.      or        Everyone has a left and a right arms.   Everyone has a left and a right arm.      My (non-native) inclination would be for option 1, as it sounds better.  On the other hand, in the following examples, the plural sounds better to me.    Everyone has left and right arms. I have old and new cars. (when I only have only one old car and one new car) The left and the right arms are...   But are they correct?
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That car is way better than any car any of us have/has ever driven.      None of us know/knows which direction Ron's house is (in).    I have two questions here.   In both the cases, are we to use the singular verb, or the plural? In the end of the second sentence, is using the preposition where it's been used, necessary? Would it be okay if it had no prepositions in it?
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Is this sentence grammatically correct?  "The application site comprises an existing care home which has 59 bedrooms and 85 registered bed spaces"  I was under the impression that 'comprise' would indicate plural, eg  "the playground comprises a slide, a climbing frame, and a swing"  and that using it singularly is incorrect, eg  "the playground comprises a slide"
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I've read many articles that use the term 'emergency services ' and ' location services' .   Why not service instead? Why must it be plural? Thank you
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Which of them is correct?     Everyone has their own stories   or      Everyone has their own story   What I'm asking about is that how could we decide that we should use a plural or singular noun after the word "own"? Is it correct to think that if a subject of the sentence is singular then a noun following the word "own" must be singular too?   Here are some examples below:     People have their own stories.      Dang has his own story.      Evenyone has their own story.
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I'm confused by the use of plural and singular when Every is use. Which of the following sentences is correct?    Every business has its own unique set of challenges, resulting in a different approach even if they have the same goals. Every businesses have their own unique set of challenges, resulting in different approaches even if they have the same goals.
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Head or tail sound fine to my ESL ears.  What's the reasoning behind the plural usage?  I looked it up on etymonline but didn't find anything interesting.