Is the mob singular or plural?
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Is the mob singular or plural?
mobs
mob Definitions and Synonyms
| singular | mob |
|---|---|
| plural | mobs |
When a sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and only one is plural the verb should agree with the positive subject?
10. If your sentence compounds a positive and a negative subject and one is plural, the other singular, the verb should agree with the positive subject. Example: The department members but not the chair have decided not to teach on Valentine’s Day.
What is positive and negative subject?
When you put a positive and a negative subject together, the verb must agree with the positive subject. The members, but not the chairman, have decided to vote against the proposal. (Here the plural verb have agrees with the positive subject ‘the members’.) It is his attitude, not his ideas, that invites criticism.
What is the use of mob?
1 : a large and disorderly crowd of people especially : one bent on riotous or destructive action. 2 informal : a large number of people a mob of shoppers clogged the aisles a team greeted by mobs of fans. 3 : a criminal set : gang especially, often capitalized : mafia sense 1 a member of the Mob a mob informant.
What is Concord and its rules?
The verb and subject must agree in number (singular or plural) This means that if the subject is singular, the verb should be singular and if the subject is plural, the verb should also be plural. Examples: He plays football.
What is the difference between positive and negative statement?
Essentially an affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity. Examples are the sentences “Jane is here” and “Jane is not here”; the first is affirmative, while the second is negative. This means that a sentence, verb phrase, etc.
What is the mob short for?
Etymology. The term “mobile object” was used by Richard Bartle for objects that were self-mobile in MUD1. Later source code in DikuMUD used the term “mobile” to refer to a generic NPC, shortened further to “mob” in identifiers.