Haiti Airport Baggage Handlers, There’re Just Too Many There’re too many kids There’re Just A Few Days Left If There’re Seasons (song title) Contractions are supposed to be easy to say. (plural countable noun) There’s a television in the living room. There’s and There are by Maeve Maddox An odd-looking contraction I’ve noticed recently is there’re for there are. We use there is for singular and uncountable nouns, and we use there are for plural countable nouns. In 2021 he was hospitalized for treatment for the symptoms of long Covid-19, according to the press office of his Forza Italia party. In English grammar we use there is or there are to talk about things we can see and things that exist. He made a return to frontline politics in 2022 when he won a seat in Italy’s Senate, representing the northern municipality of Monza. In this edition of Destination Vacation, we can show you there. As many North Carolinians know, Lexington is known for its many barbeque restaurants. (WGHP) This week, FOX 8 is highlighting two locations you must visit when going on a small trip to Lexington. The hospital said Friday the present checkup “meets clinical criteria of normal practice in medicine and is not related to any criticality or alarm.”Ī controversial media tycoon, Berlusconi has served three stints as Italy’s prime minister, most recently between 20, before being banned from politics for six years following a conviction for tax fraud. There are a few must-see places when you’re visiting Lexington. The hospital has previously said the politician’s cancer is not acute and that he has carried the disease “for some time.” In a statement on Friday, the hospital said Berlusconi was there for “scheduled examinations related to his known hematological pathology.”īerlusconi has previously been diagnosed with leukemia and was hospitalized in April with breathing problems. The 86-year-old leader of the Forza Italia party was released from his last stint in hospital on May 19 after a 45 day stay for a lung infection. You would always say, 'Everybody is here.' This means that the word is singular and nothing will change that.Įach of the students is responsible for doing his or her work in the library.ĭon't let the word 'students' confuse you the subject is each and each is always singular - Each is responsible.Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister, has been admitted to a hospital in Milan, his spokesman has told CNN.īerlusconi’s latest stay at the San Raffaele hospital comes ahead of a big meeting of his party planned for Saturday. Each, too, is always singular and requires a singular verb.Įveryone has finished his or her homework. Each is often followed by a prepositional phrase ending in a plural word (Each of the cars), thus confusing the verb choice. Some indefinite pronouns are particularly troublesome Everyone and everybody (listed above, also) certainly feel like more than one person and, therefore, students are sometimes tempted to use a plural verb with them. (In this last example, the word their precludes the use of the singular verb. None of the students have done their homework. None of you claim responsibility for this incident? None of you claims responsibility for this incident? (Writers generally think of none as meaning not any and will choose a plural verb, as in 'None of the engines are working,' but when something else makes us regard none as meaning not one, we want a singular verb, as in 'None of the food is fresh.') On the other hand, there is one indefinite pronoun, none, that can be either singular or plural it often doesn't matter whether you use a singular or a plural verb - unless something else in the sentence determines its number. (Is the thing referred to countable or not?) Be careful choosing a verb to accompany such pronouns. Nowhere in the United States but in New Jersey are there so many people per square mile. So if it follows the same pattern it will be something like that. Some indefinite pronouns - such as all, some - are singular or plural depending on what they're referring to. There is the subject and are is the verb. The indefinite pronouns anyone, everyone, someone, no one, nobody are always singular and, therefore, require singular verbs.