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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? When adding image from Wikimedia Commons, automatically add author/license/link Many Stack Exchange questions and answers embed images from Wikimedia Commons. It is probably the most used image source here. Good news Thanks to their license, all images from Wikimedia Commons can be legally used inside Stack Exchange. Bad news The only requirement is to cite the author/license (), an easy task, but we are totally failing at it, only maybe 1% of Commons images used here are properly cited. That makes our use of these images illegal, and could expose Stack Exchange to various legal threats. Not my problem, you could say, but this is also important because , bringing Stack Exchange closer to closed-data sites like Yahoo! Answers or Experts-Exchange. Proposed solution When using the image addition widget, the widget should detect whether the image's URL has a *.wikimedia.org domain, and if yes:  (optional) Transfer the image to imgur, for perennity reasons. Retrieve the author name and license name from Commons (there is a very reliable API that gives that). Concatenate into a proper citation, maybe something like &quot;*Credit: [&quot; + author + &quot;](&quot; + commonsPageURL + &quot;) , [&quot; + license + &quot;](&quot; + licenseURL + &quot;)*&quot; Insert the citation at the same time as the image's MarkDown.  Benefits:  Remove a large part of Stack Exchange's copyright violations. Makes us a good citizen in the open data world. Remember what happens to sites who disregard ethics (Experts Exchange). Consistent citations. Zero added burden for the users. Long wait time on login Pass PHP variables to Javascript/jquery math fallacy problem: $-1= (-1)^3 = (-1)^{6/2} = \sqrt{(-1)^6}= 1$? How to delete duplicate LiDAR points? How can I delete duplicate LiDAR points? I incorrectly read the same las twice and saved as a one file resulting in duplicate XY points.  How should I delete these duplicate points? This is in very common use on the internet. I just read this:     "[The] hotel employee walks in, I say "uh, puppy" and she just NOPEd the [heck] out of the room."   This is often done by adding 'd to the word. A person has a computer with no HDD but 16GB RAM and USB3 port.  Also has 16GB USB3 pendrive with Ubuntu Live on it, (Non persistent).  The computer is then started with the pendrive using toram.  The pendrive is then removed and reinserted while the O/S is running.  Is the O/S that is running in RAM able to do a "Full" install to the pendrive?  This was asked in:     However for some reason this unique question was marked as "Duplicate". Java code needs a system.out.println statement to run I noticed that after joining a table to a shapefile the headers of each fields in the table used for the join are changed by QGIS and they are attributed to a different name.  For instance, I had a shapefile with vegetation_codes and a table with vegetation_codes and veg_definition (these were the headers). After joining the table to the shapefile and also saving the shapefile and creating a new one, the vegetation_classes header was changed into vegetati_1.  Is there a way to keep the original headers?  I am using QGIS Dufour on Windows 7 and the table that I join to the shapefile is CSV (tried with dbf as well and the problem is the same). Let be $V$ a vector space over the complex numbers with inner product. Let be $T$ and $S$ linear operators in $V$ with adjoint operators $T^*$, and $S^*$ respectively. I know that it satisfies this: $\left&lt; T(x),y \right&gt;=\left&lt; x,T^{*}(y) \right&gt;$ $\left&lt; S(x),y \right&gt;=\left&lt; x,S^{*}(y) \right&gt;$    $\forall x,y \in V$ But, How can I prove that the adjoint operator of $ST$ is $(ST)^{*}$? And how can I  prove that $(ST)^{*}=T^{*}S^{*}$? How to disable the "highlight changes" feature? Our admins deployed a new version of Notepad++ (version 6.3) on our machines, and this version is highlighting all changes done in a file by default. It does so by setting the background color of every modified line to a bright orange, which I find very distracting.  We  have dozens of plugins installed, but I double checked and we do not have the "Change Markers" plugin (which could be the culprit).  Any idea where I can disable this feature? Changing the highlight color could also be an option. Meaning of syntax $N(\mathbf{y} \mid \mathbf{0}, \mathbf{K})$ (multivariate normal distribution) Difference between information and knowledge? As far as I think projection of data unto subject mind is information for the subject whereas indentation or impressions accumulated owing to projection of data unto subject mind is knowledge for the subject. I want to know am I right? Or can someone provide a more rigorous answer! As it is common with people from my country, I have an immense difficulty with prepositions in English, especially with the use of in and on.   When the preposition indicates the position of the object it is a bit easier to decide which one to use, but as it requires thinking from me, I still say things like "I put the bill in the fridge", "my pencil is on my bag", etc, even though if I think about it, I would know how to say it correctly.  Of course, even in those cases where the preposition indicates position the decision is not always clear, as is the case for example with "on the bus" (you are not on top of the bus, you are inside the bus) or "he is in bed" (you are not inside the bed, you are on top of your bed).  Other cases are even less clear, and I believe there is no real rule to decide what should be said; the person should just know it. Two examples are "in a bad mood", "you are on my mind".  So my first question is whether there is really no rule to help me. The second question refers to two of the cases where I still don't know whether to use in or on:   good luck on/in your exam in/on the list   The last one is especially important to me, as I have asked a number of native speakers, and each time I get a different answer. The only consensus seems to be the case where you say "on top of the list". Apart from that, some people will say that I should say "his name is in the list" whereas others think I should say "his name is on the list". And yeah, a couple of people did tell me that I can use either.  Can someone help me? Rule of thumb for choosing an implementation of a Java Collection? Anyone have a good rule of thumb for choosing between different implementations of Java Collection interfaces like List, Map, or Set?  For example, generally why or in what cases would I prefer to use a Vector or an ArrayList, a Hashtable or a HashMap? Why does DMM show AC and DC current when source is a battery? (How to calculate power in this case?) The circuit is an altered Joule Thief of my design that is driven by an AA or AAA battery. I’m observing the current at the battery anode with my DMM in series. (Extech EX330) This circuit is extremely efficient (In relation to other Joule Thief I've build.) and does some weird stuff - like, it needs a pushbutton sometimes.    Measurements: It is drawing 9.21 mA DC and 6.48 mA AC in series with the battery. It shows 1.364 VDC and 0.010 VAC in parallel with the battery. Output on the LED is 2.572 VDC and 0.011 VAC with no measurable frequency. (with my DMM at least) All measurements are taken with the same configuration and voltage.    But how is it drawing AC and DC and how do I calculate power consumption? --> Could it be because the emitter pin of the NPN is directly connected to ground? --> Or is the circuit just "switching on and off"?     Download schematic:  (I tried to simulate the circuit in LTspice. Thanks for making me aware of this amazing program, Sredni Vashtar!)     What the pushbutton is used for: The pushbutton is used to "kickstart" the oscillation when it wont start by itself. For example: I have to manually "oscillate" using this button to start the circuit if the capacitor is too big and battery voltage is low. Pushing the button releases the energy in the transformer into the capacitor. If it reaches LED forward voltage the circuit keeps oscillating on it's own. It does work without manual intervention when then capacitor in parallel with the LED is not too big, like &lt;5000 µF, and it's a fresh battery.    . Thank you for your answers! I'm learning so much! :D Using one group separator for integer part and another for decimal part (siunitx) I thought I was able to do something like this before, but I can't find my solution.  I would like to format my large numbers as follows:   12,504.3124 2359 3   I know I can use siunitx to partially set this up, but I'm not getting the results I want:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{siunitx}  \newcommand\aenumA[1][4]{%%   \num[group-separator={,},        group-digits=integer,        ]}  \newcommand\aenumB[1][4]{%%   \num[group-digits=decimal,        ]}  \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document}    \aenumA{12504.312423593}    \aenumB{12504.312423593}  \end{document}   I would like a hybrid solution (commas in the integer part and spaces in the decimal).  I would actually also like to be able to group differently between the two: every three digits in the integer part, every four digits in the decimal part.  Is there a straight-forward way to do this with siunitx?  Or, do I need to split the number at the decimal and treat the two parts separately and then glue them back together? When is the message "Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?" displayed? Will metering from a DSLR apply to a film SLR? I still like to shoot with film (I use a Nikon F3) but I like the immediate feedback of digital.  I'm thinking of buying a used DSLR to help me get the framing and lighting right when I shoot static subjects.  Then I'd take the final shot with my F3. But would the metering be transferable?  If the shot looks perfect at 1/125 with f/2 on a DSLR, will the same settings work on a film camera?