Grammar English lives at 55 Boretz Road in Durham. We use on to designate names of streets, avenues, etc. Her house is on Boretz Road. And we use in for the names of land-areas (towns, counties, states, countries, and continents). She lives in Durham. Durham is in Windham County. Windham County is in Connecticut.
Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in
We use at to designate specific times. The train is due at 12:15 p.m. We use on to designate days and dates. My brother is coming on Monday. We're having a party on the Fourth of July. We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year. She likes to jog in the morning. It's too cold in winter to run outside. He started the job in 1971. He's going to quit in August.
Using Which vs. That
That Is Restrictive The word that is considered to be a restrictive element of any sentence that it may be used in. If you take a quick look at the definitions above, you will see that a restrictive element limits the meaning of the sentence element that it modifies. For example if you used the following sentence, Baby foods that contain soybeans are best. The restrictive element of the sentence are the words that contain because these words restrict the type of baby food that is being discussed. In effect without the words that contain the whole sentence meaning would be altered. You can see that without the words that contain there would be no restrictive element of the baby food. Instead the sentence would imply that all baby food is best. Lets examine the notion of the non-restrictive element. Reverting to the definition above, a non-restrictive element is a word, phrase or a clause within a sentence that only serves as additional information an info item so to speak. Should a non-restrictive item be left out of the sentence then it will not change the meaning of the sentence whatsoever.
Which Is Not Restrictive
You can usually recognize a non-restrictive element because it is surrounded by commas or parentheses. Here is an example (working from a similar version of the sample sentence above) of how a non-restrictive element using the word which should be used. Soybean baby foods, which are Sallys favorite, work well for her diet. Can you see the difference between how the word that (a restrictive element) and the word which (a non-restrictive element) work in a sentence? Take a look again. If you look at the illustration for a non-restrictive element (or the word which) you can see how if you removed the phrase which are Sallys favorite the meaning of the sentence does not change. The only thing that the phrase which are Sallys favorite does is provide additional information. It is important, when reviewing how to use which or that in a sentence that you take your time and let the lesson sink in. If you read it too fast, you may miss it and get confused. When you are learning about restrictive and non-restrictive elements it is crucial that you pay close attention. The slightest distraction could lead you to use the words which and that in the wrong context. When it comes to these words it helps to fully understand the role that they play in sentence structure.
Neither was or Neither were
Neither Prince nor Malloy were wearing seatbelts, according to the accident report. You might have spotted the problem; its easier to see when the sentence is isolated. When two subjects are joined by neither-nor or either-or, choosing the right number for the verb can be tricky for writers. Focus your attention on the noun closest to the verb. If it is singular, as in the sentence above, choose the singular verb. If the noun is plural, choose the plural form of the verb. The sometimes maligned Associated Press Stylebook advises not to think of the nouns as a compound subject, as they would be if joined by and, but to think of them as alternate subjects. Perhaps that explanation will help you remember. So the sentence would be edited: Neither Prince nor Malloy was wearing a seatbelt, according to the accident report. If you have a singular noun and a plural noun yoked with neither-nor or either-or, put the plural noun last. Your sentence will sound better. Neither the boy nor his sisters were wearing seatbelts.
Evidence is uncountable and hence does not occur in the plural.
Corpus evidence suggests that evidence in the singular is indeed common. It is a mass noun.
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