Timeline for Should the verb after "Quantities of" be in the form of plural form when meeting a uncoutable noun?
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 7:57 | comment | added | Beginner | Thank you for your guidance, for an English-learner who isn't living in a native country with grammars, maybe sometimes is right otherwises wrong ;) | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 18:28 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 16, 2022 at 10:32 | comment | added | user81561 | @Beginner It certainly explains "lots of x was..." Lots, in this sense, does not mean "many individual lots" - it means "a great quantity" and is thus has singular concord. -- I tend to regard -- you should avoid subjectivity - it is not a guide to language. -- logically ... I think you mean "By applying a pattern from other examples" - and that would mean that we have "Think - thought / Drink - drought. ;). | |
| Jun 16, 2022 at 2:07 | comment | added | Beginner | Thank you for your explaination, however it cannot explain why "Lots of..."/"Tons of water was wasted...". I tend to reguard these words as a unit word instead of a "of..." meaning "a part of sth". So it seems it should be right logically but people don't say it naturally, they tend to use plural form of verb here for "quantities of....". | |
| Jun 15, 2022 at 11:37 | history | answered | user81561 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |