Monday 20 December 2010
Are there any news from the blogosphere?
I recently received a memo asking "Are there any news?", referring to a previous e-mail. This mistake is understandable as "news" is plural. However, in this case, the subject is "any", which is a pronoun that takes the singular form of the verb. "Is there any news?" is proper and the way all native speakers would express this thought.
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Just received an e-mail stating that "here are not a lot of news after our last meetings". Should be "there is not a lot of news since..."
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