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Mr. Kalgukshi · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject: Unlocked.

Unlocked.

Good luck.

bearcanada · Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 312 Location: Calgary, Canada

I have an idea for a new topic. We all know that English has many words derived from Latin; maybe it would be fun to explore some of these.

For example, consider the English word, "eunuch". In ancient Rome, "eunuchus" was a zoological term mainly applied to squirrels. It derives from the two Latin words, 'e' or 'ex', meaning "out of", and 'nucus', meaning "nuts".

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Mideatoo · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:

What is wrong with these two sentences? (and why...)

The young girl, who has nice b.reast.s, wears a red polo-shirt. Her boyfriend as dirty as it is reveals the beauty of a great lover every morning.

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fluffyhamster · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:27 am Post subject:

There is quite a bit of prescriptivism in this thread - meaning, I didn't get much out of it...not that I absolutely hated reading (OK OK, in some places only skimming thru) it.

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SpedEd · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 143 Location: Shanghai

Well, I can say that this argument is rather moot. The subject-verb agreement should read as, 'There are *many* students'. I preferably would not use 'a lot of' with a plural noun but with a non-count noun, such as 'traffic', and in turn use the singular verb 'is', ie., 'There is a lot of traffic.' It will work with both, however.
When the words 'a lot of' are used together in this way, they are referred to as a quantifer. Tell the Ss that the correct forms of the verb and subject should be used to agree, ie., 'are' and 'students'.