Is there any grammatical correctness in either of these expressions: "I only have 10 dollar on  and  "I have only 10 dollar on me" ?
Which is grammatically correct?  I can only do so much in this time.  or  I can do only so much in this time.
"There Is"/"There are" depends on plurality of the first list element or not? It seems I put a   Bounty assigned by outside party, two lengthy, reference-citing answers, one "-1" (awarded the bounty), one "-2", two others scored "0" and "-2" respectively, the answers suggesting one or the other is correct, 73 comments and no consensus so far - and me, as the asker, lost without a clue what to think of the answers anymore -  this is no longer "Learners' Level" question, so I thought I'd bring it here and hear what the experts have to say.    Original question:  Plurality of verb depending on plurality of list elements  An edit was suggested to my sentence.     There was were an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   In my native language plurality of the verb always follows plurality of the first element on the list. There were an orange,... sounds awkward to me, no matter what follows up. My simple solution was reordering:     There were some grapes, an orange, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   But that's not the first time I faced this situation and I'd like to know what the rules of grammar say about that - was my editor overzealous or am I trying to copy rules of my language that don't apply in English?    Someone linked a  for negatives, where the situation is more clear-cut ("There is no..."). Same applies to connection with "or" apparently, per accepted answer there. Still, nothing for "and".  It seems there is a consensus that in that if the verb goes after the list, it will be plural.     an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries were on the plate.   There doesn't seem to be clear consensus for:     On the plate { was | were } an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries   Adding more to the confusion is the abbreviated form: "There's"     One last note. In North America, at least, there is a widespread use of using a singular form like "there is" and "there was", without regard for the subject item or items, and this "there is" is often shortened to "there's":           There's three apples on the table!      Could you please clarify this mess? Cartoon in a world with magic stones wielded by four children which combine to become stronger, and can summon creatures Can you please help me find this animated show? There is a four member team with two boys and two girls. The boys can summon, with their stones, a rock golem (black wearing summoner) and a robot (orange wearing summoner). The two girls can summon something like a dragonfly (green wearing summoner, little girl) and the blue girl, I don't remember what she can summon.  I don't know where the animated show comes from.  By throwing the stone, they activate the stone's power. Each stone has different characters on it. When you don't match them correctly, you get a rebound effect. 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I know that $$ \left(1+ \frac{z}{n} \right)^n \to e^{z} $$ as $n \to \infty$. So intuitively if $z_n \to z$ then we should have $$ \left(1+ \frac{z_n}{n} \right)^n \to e^{z}. $$ If $z_n \in \mathbb{R}$ I would be happy writing $$ \exp \left(n \log\left(1+ \frac{z_n}{n} \right) \right) = \exp \left(z_n \frac{\log\left(1+ \frac{z_n}{n} \right)-\log(1+0)}{\frac{z_n}{n}-0} \right) \to \exp(z \cdot 1) $$ where here we are using the definition of derivative. But if $z \in \mathbb{C}$ the logarithm is multivalued and I'm not sure that the same calculation is allowed. Is there a different way to show this for complex $z$? Do plugin files have to follow a specific convention to be "picked up" by WordPress? What open source software for auto-alignment of photographs? Do you know any open source tool to automatically align images, similar to the auto align feature in Photoshop? Operation not permitted turning off airplay mirroring