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  1. Re: here is ten dollars & here are two beers. почему??

    Totally disagree again. If someone said "hey Scotcher, here are ten bucks... " I would hear it as clearly as if they got the words in the wrong order. I wouldn't care, but I most certainly would hear...
  2. Re: here is ten dollars & here are two beers. почему??

    "Here are ten dollars" is perfectly good English, and in fact your standard English teacher would probably consider it the only right way to say it.

    "Here is ten dollars" is colloquial English. ...
  3. I dunno. Probably some buried English genetive...

    I dunno. Probably some buried English genetive declension equivalent.

    Numerals do have regular plurals in the nominative (at least, what anyone who speaks a declined language would understand to...
  4. 3) is the only correct one, and yes, same goes...

    3) is the only correct one, and yes, same goes for millions.

    That's assuming that the noun takes a regular plural, as is the case with dollar. If it has an irregular plural, then all bets are off.
  5. It would be a really tiny error that no-one would...

    Would it be an error to say "Here are five (six, seven, eight) dollars" or do I have to use "is"?[/quote]

    It would be a really tiny error that no-one would notice or care about even if they did,...
  6. In British English, the distinction is that we...

    Sure:

    1 I'm going to school.
    2 I'm going to the bank.
    3 I'm going to the store.
    4 I'm going to church.

    Why do we use "the" in 2 and 3, but not 1 and 4? Nobody knows.[/quote]

    In British...
  7. Here is three dollars - "three dollars" is a...

    Here is three dollars - "three dollars" is a mass/ uncountable noun phrase. You are talking about an amount of money.

    Here are three dollar bills - "dollar bills" is a countable noun phrase. You...
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