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like "I've moved. My new address is xxxxxx"). I've already packed the book, and I can't find any examples online, so I'm just wondering what the standard format is for that type of notice. It's probably a lot more simple than I remember (something like 引っ越しました followed by the new address), but I thought there was more to it. Am I wrong?
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The original question is nothing to do with the plurality or not of 'group', because the subject is 'none', not 'group'. Among those who believe in 'correct', there are some who insist that 'none' should always take a singular verb (the rationalisation I was told was that it stands for 'no one'). In
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Not exactly. I know how to write the address on a postcard or an envelope. The situation is that I'm moving to a new apartment, and I want to send notices with my new home address, so that people know where to reach me. I have a book with a standard format postcard (it says, in
Japanese, something
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These questions keep coming back, I think we need an article that explains if zero is sigular or plural once and for all, another that explains if group words ("team", "set", etc.) should be singular or plural, depending on where you are, which situation, or the actual meaning of the phrase (like "a
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in World War II did something similar, where certain concepts were substituted with a word in Navajo (e.g "hand grenade" becomes the Navajo word for "potato"). In the case of FoxTrot, I doubt there was a particular code being used. Bill Amend probably just used phrases that sounded mysterious, using
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that schoolteachers are keeping from you: the
English language lives in the heads of its native speakers. It is ridiculous to argue from syllogisms, and it is ridiculous to decide on the grounds that the word was two words before they were joined nine hundred years ago: it has certainly not been a
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A better rule is that if you would expect there to be more than one, but there are none, then you should treat "none" as plural ("What do you mean, you have 10,000 employees and none of them are right-handed?"); otherwise treat it as singular. But it's correct either way. --Anonymous, 05:55 UTC,
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strip where Peter and Denise are on to Jason and Marcus wiretapping them, so they start speaking in a secret code where one would say "The local train stops on the hour" and the other would say "the heavy flag flaps not at night". Does anyone know the name of this secret code? Thanks in advance.
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contraction since then. You should therefore say both sentences to yourself and decide which one sounds correct, and then use that. If you really want someone else to lay down the law, then as a native speaker I claim my right to tell you that "none" takes the plural.
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total of..."). Otherwise we will keep rewriting the answer and arguing for pages and pages about it, everytime the question comes up. Not being a native speaker of
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I've heard the term "open code" for a code where ordinary words and phrases are substituted for others, but I can't find a source to confirm that (googling for the phrase produces too many false hits to be helpful). The
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