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Originally Posted by Frownland
Um...
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Yeah, yeah. So you got me.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
*the’ir
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Whay're?
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Originally Posted by The Batlord
**** that. Four people are; a company of hundreds is. I don't give a **** about the rule because sometimes the rule sounds awkward and bull**** and I'll break it as I see fit.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ Actually, I'm pretty sure you can use either for words that refer to a single group with members that can be considered as individuals too:-
My family is/are crazy. The herd has/have moved on. The team is/are playing well.
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More or less what I said, and yes, it does confuse me. Do you say "the American people are mad for voting in Trump" or "The American people is made for voting in Trump"? Either way, they're mad.
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"A cloud of particles" will always be single, because who cares about the personality of one particle ?
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Don't be one of those particle haters now! Stephen H would not approve!
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^ Sorry to deflate your fury, Trollheart, but sometimes sentences can start with "so", especially in conversation. Your second sentence is fine in spoken English because the word "so" is an accepted "discourse marker". It is one of a group of words we use that don't mean much more than "I'm going to say something now".
Other common discourse markers are OK, Right, Well, and Now Then.
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Yeah but it happens so (
) often. I see it on Dragons' Den: "Tell us about your third year predictions" - "So we expect to hit three million by year three." Or "How does this item work?" - "So you just plug it into any USB port..."
How does "so" work at all there? You could say the sentence without so and it would make as much, if not more, sense. It's too prevalent, I feel, and everyone is doing it now, almost without thinking about it, it seems.