It's clearly countable, but I want to know if "more than one book" is sigular or plural. Thanks.
2007-03-27 18:29:05 · 11 answers · asked by Muscular Homo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
There is more than one book.
2007-03-27 18:34:40 · answer #1 · answered by Rose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The subject of the sentence will always be the force. If the subject is singular, then the verb will take on the singular too. If plural, then the verb will be plural.
Book is singular, so the verb is 'is'. If you changed it around to 'there is/are a few books', you'd use 'are'.
2007-03-28 01:40:00 · answer #2 · answered by Sia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There IS more than one book. The subject is 'book' which is singular. If there were more than one book, it would be ARE which would pertain to mulitiple books - plural.
2007-03-28 02:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sasha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the subject of the sentence is "book" which is singular .. therefore the verb must match that, 3rd person singular for 'to be' in English -> is
There IS more than one book
There ARE more than 2 books
2007-03-28 02:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"There is" would be the correct choice. I seem to recall hearing my grandparents saying things like the latter (and they were well educated) but the thing about language, is the rules change. Which is why I dont speak Shakespeare, although I do understand him.
Be well
2007-03-28 01:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by freshbliss 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
IS---is correct....it refers to 'one book'
2007-03-28 03:09:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is more than one book
there are numerous books
there are other books
2007-03-28 01:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by shadowdancr17 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Is" would be used for this. The key is the word "book"; if it were "books", "are" would be used.
2007-03-28 01:51:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is more than one book.
There are more than two books.
I think
2007-03-28 01:38:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is.
2007-03-28 01:38:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋