Ahoy, people, I need your GRAMMAR help (English is my fourth language, you see). So please be as [grammar] Nazi as you can, I really need that 😆
At the link from today's post, https://x22report.com/omnipresident-part-3/ I see “elections until now has been” but I'd write “have been”. What I've learned, is “singular 3rd person > has, all others/plural > have”. What am I missing? Some exception, or developing and changing tradition?
Countries/national states mentioned are often referred to as 'she' but the verb goes plural -- I take it they are either 'it' as inanimate themselves or 'they' as all-the-people-they-enclose. Some 'motherland' connection, …?
I sometimes see sentences where 'be' is missing to my eye. (Sorry, can not find an example among latest posts right now). Again: as a rule of thumb, words and expressions shorten with time: syllables in words and words without which thought remains understandable, just drop off. Am I observing this process, or just unkempt postings?
Greetings fellow grammar nerds. I discovered something about my own language (Am. Eng) from helping foreigners with theirs. The accent on words that are spelled the same, in which one is a noun and the other is a verb, varies. If the word is a noun, the accent is on the first syllable. If the word is a verb, the accent is on the second syllable. Like conflict. I don't like CONflict. It conFLICTs with my personality. It is pretty consistent. I haven't found an exception yet.