are plenty or is plenty?
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If it's singular, like 'space' or 'water' or 'love', then you use the singular form of the verb: There's plenty of love to go around. There is plenty of space in the back of that car. If the plenty is plural: girls, apples, times, then the verb form should be plural; There are plenty of girls on that team.
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"Pretty well" is neither correct nor idiomatic. "Pretty good" would be. However, neither means the same as "pretty busy," which means literally that the person has had a lot of things to do or to worry about. N.
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You would use are, and most usually implies a plural, so it usually takes the plural form of a verb: "These flowers come in many colors, but MOST ARE some shade of pink. "Most" makes the subject uncountable, so is should be right.
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Part of plural is plural. Such nouns as abundance, half, part, plenty, rest and variety takes a singular verb or a plural verb according to the number of the noun in the of phrase that modifies the noun. The same rule applies to fractions used as subjects. Plenty of applies are on the market now.
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adjective, am·pler, am·plest. fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough: an ample supply of water; ample time to finish.
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"Is" is to be used singularly and "are" is the plural. They're collective nouns, so either is fine. They're typically referred to as plural in British English. A company is a group of people in the same way a school bus is a group of children.
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When a plural noun denotes a specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, the verb is generally singular. Examples: Fifteen minutes is not sufficient. Ten kilometers is a long distance.
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In your use of the noun “many” you mean the plural of the noun “one”, thus you need a plural verb form to agree in number with its subject., “There are many…”. There ARE many is correct because you are talking about 'many' which is plural. IS is wrong, because it is singular. E.G. There IS an apple in the bowl.
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Alot is a common misspelling of a lot. A lot should always be spelled as two words. The meaning of a lot depends on the context.
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There's plenty of fish (in the sea) means a single person still has lots of options out there for future partners. It's often said in consolation after a breakup—not that it always helps. The saying is the basis of the name of an online dating website, Plenty of Fish, often abbreviated as POF.
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- To use all or a lot of something. use up. run out. eat into.
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There's plenty of fish (in the sea) means a single person still has lots of options out there for future partners. ... The saying is the basis of the name of an online dating website, Plenty of Fish, often abbreviated as POF. Related words: found my fish.
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Much is a noun (or, to some, a pronoun) in much + to + [verb] and is always singular (or, at least always used with a singular verb).
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So the verb agrees with the noun that “a lot of” qualifies, rather than “a lot”. We can therefore have either “are a lot of” or “is a lot of” depending on the noun. Mostly, we will use “There are a lot of” with countable nouns, when we discuss plurals, and “There is a lot of” with uncountable nouns.
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Some common synonyms of adequate are competent, enough, and sufficient. While all these words mean "being what is necessary or desirable," adequate may imply barely meeting a requirement.
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"About 2 percent of the population are Hindu..." The subject is percent, not people, which is a singular form. That's why the verb needs to be is. But percent is proceeded by 2.
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A lot of, lots of with a noun A lot of and lots of can both be used with plural countable nouns and with singular uncountable nouns for affirmatives, negatives, and questions: We've got lots of things to do. That's a lot of money.