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08.08.2018 09:07badgesareus hat geschrieben: The "deciding factor" is basic English grammar.The beauty of English grammar is the flexibility and creativity inherent to it. As you say, there is ‘basic grammar’, but from there, you can go into linguistics and different complexities. Which we will not do here. In order to be sure once and for all, I decided to find out which expression is the correct one: ‘much more is’ or ‘much more are’. The results were not what I expected. You see, according to the corpora of English (you can find them here https://corpus.byu.edu/ and I looked at all of them), both versions are valid. Depending on the register, sometimes one or the other is preferred, but overall, both of them perfectly acceptable. It seems we are both right and it is only a question of preference.
08.08.2018 09:07badgesareus hat geschrieben: I would also note that the proper form would be to write "100 hours of gametime.I do agree with that, good catch. I focussed too much on only one thing! Thanks! ;=)
07.08.2018 13:08Celestis hat geschrieben: I can only rely on what you write. Any help is welcomeI have taken a look at all the covers posted here, and here are my edits of them. You can take them or leave them!
The beauty of English grammar is the flexibility and creativity inherent to it. As you say, there is ‘basic grammar’, but from there, you can go into linguistics and different complexities. Which we will not do here. In order to be sure once and for all, I decided to find out which expression is the correct one: ‘much more is’ or ‘much more are’. The results were not what I expected. You see, according to the corpora of English (you can find them here https://corpus.byu.edu/ and I looked at all of them), both versions are valid. Depending on the register, sometimes one or the other is preferred, but overall, both of them perfectly acceptable. It seems we are both right and it is only a question of preference.You would be correct if the sentence began with "Much more," but it does not begin there. You continue to ignore the first half of the subject of the sentence "100 hours (of) gameplay and". Your argument is that the first half of a compound subject can be totally ignored. So following your logic, it would be correct grammar to write "John and Jerry is eating pie" because it is proper to write "Jerry is eating pie" and one can just ignore the words "John and" when selecting the proper form of the verb.
10.08.2018 02:39badgesareus hat geschrieben: You would be correct if the sentence began with "Much more," but it does not begin there. You continue to ignore the first half of the subject of the sentence "100 hours (of) gameplay and". Your argument is that the first half of a compound subject can be totally ignored. So following your logic, it would be correct grammar to write "John and Jerry is eating pie" because it is proper to write "Jerry is eating pie" and one can just ignore the words "John and" when selecting the proper form of the verb.Actually, I did not say that, nor am I ignoring the first part of the compound. Rather, my argument runs along the lines of 'much more' being a specific quantifier for uncountable nouns that sums up the previous information and could override it, in this specific case (though according to corpora that is down to preference). But - I rest my case.![]()
could override it
pass a university advanced grammar course, they are trying to get a readable cover for the English reading parts of the world, a lot of which aren't even native English speakers, so arguing over such anal pointsIndirectly, you make my point. The issue is not university advanced grammar, it is extremely basic grammar, the type you learn in your first few years in school, certainly by the age of 10. Basic sentence structure: single subject, single verb, plural subject, plural verb. This is not overridden by pages and pages of convoluted arguments.
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