Dec 5, 2010 · Do I say "I study computer science," or "I study Computer Science"? Similarly, "I really liked that computer science course," vs. "I really liked that Computer Science course."

Strictly speaking, a team is a count noun.You can have two teams, ten teams, or one team. So if you're talking about the team, or one team, then that should take a singular verb:

Apr 29, 2014 · @Doorknob - Elliot has named it correctly. The upper lip is skin-covered, skin-colored, and hairy. The pink parts are called the upper and lower vermilion, the border between the skin and the vermilion is called the vermilion border, the wet, shiny inner portion of what people call the "lips" is called the wet vermilion or the mucosa.

Dec 9, 2016 · Database search results. The earliest match in a n Elephind search that explicitly identifies someone's ass as the conduit for blown smoke (in a slang sense) is from John Anderson, "Billie Carr: The 'Godmother' of Local Liberal Politics," in the [Houston, Texas] Rice Thresher (June 26 1975), the student newspaper at Rice University in Houston:

Oct 5, 2016 · Similar and related to k1eran's answer, countryfolk would meet the criteria for being a closed compound, and carry the same effective meaning as country people in this context.

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The appropriate verb, formally, is is.If the subjects are a mix of singular and plural as in your example, then the verb agrees with the closest subject (after or).

Nov 28, 2019 · On the use of so-called 'zero genitive', marked by a simple apostrophe in spelling ('), as opposed to the 's genitive, Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik specify in A Comprehensive grammar of the English Language (pp. 320 & 321) that:

I am wondering what the precise differences between preternatural and supernatural are. I know praeter is Latin for beyond so that preternatural literally means beyond natural. But how exactly ...

Feb 3, 2021 · Hectare is from the Greek hect, the multiplier, and are, the primary unit of land measurement and the base unit. It means 100 ares, so it makes sense to abbreviate to the initials of the multiplier and base. We do the same thing with kilogram ("kg"; not "ki"), millimetre ("mm"; not "mi"), nanosecond ("ns"; not "na"), and so on.