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r/EnglishLearning • u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster • Mar 25 '25
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still tho you can construct circumstances that are weirder.
"Twenty people in one train car is a lot."
"If you get onto the train car, and there are already twenty people there, go to the next car."
Those sentences are equally abstract/nonspecific uses, but the first one scans better singular, and second one plural.
2 u/RandomNick42 New Poster Mar 25 '25 Yes, because there is a lot, and there are 20 people
Yes, because there is a lot, and there are 20 people
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u/davvblack The US is a big place Mar 25 '25
still tho you can construct circumstances that are weirder.
"Twenty people in one train car is a lot."
"If you get onto the train car, and there are already twenty people there, go to the next car."
Those sentences are equally abstract/nonspecific uses, but the first one scans better singular, and second one plural.