Ten years are a long time to spend in jail.

GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:

Incorrect: Ten years are a long time to spend in jail.

Correct: Ten years is a long time to spend in jail.

GRAMMAR: When the subject is a period of time, the verb is singular.

WORD OF THE DAY:

all-nighter

When we refer to a person as an 'all-nighter', what we mean is that he is someone who stays awake all night.
Ex: Rahul said that the party would be an all-nighter.



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He has a car, hasn't he?

WORD OF THE DAY:
Prevaricate:

• verb used without object
• to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
  Ex: He can prevaricate no longer.

GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:

Incorrect: He has a car, hasn't he?
Correct: He has a car, doesn't he?

GRAMMAR: Take a look at the following sentences. She is beautiful, isn't she? The students can go home, can't they? They do want to help, don't they? He has walked three miles, hasn't he? In all the examples, the question tag makes use of 'be' verb, or a helping verb like 'can', 'do', 'has', etc.
However, the sentence "He has a car, hasn't he?" 'has' is the main verb, and the sentence doesn't contain a helping verb. When 'has' is the main verb, you cannot make use of it in the questag tag; you have to make use of some of the verb 'do'.
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In a hospital everything have to be very clean/ ignoramus/ everything (singular verb)

"English Word & Grammar" is an initiative taken by me to enrich our English in the word and in the grammar front.

WORD OF THE DAY:

ignoramus

–noun, plural -mus·es.
an extremely ignorant person.

You have already remarked that I am an ignoramus in mathematical subjects, so there is nothing I could contribute.

GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:

Incorrect: In a hospital everything have to be very clean.

Correct: In a hospital everything has to be very clean.

GRAMMAR: "Everything" takes a singular verb.

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