Grammar - Which Is Correct?

well, if you dont shorten it it would read as "offside was not as good as last time" but as they are a band, it should really be they (offsring) were not as good as last time.


In other words, it's 'weren't' that you should be using.








.....and i got a 'C' in english :o
 
Gilly said:
Nope. She's right in that context as 'the band' is singular. You're talking about one band.

Once you name the band it changes.

If, from the start, she'd said 'the band wasn't as good' then she'd have been correct. Instead she said 'offside wasn't as good' which is incorrect.
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I don't see why it changes once you name the band.

What's your reasoning?
 
Crispy Pigeon said:
I don't see why it changes once you name the band.

What's your reasoning?
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Use james miller's example. Expand the contraction wasn't and put it in the initial quoted sentence in the OP. Now expand weren't and put it in the initial quoted sentence.

You can't see why it changes?
 
Crispy Pigeon said:
I don't see why it changes once you name the band.

What's your reasoning?
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Remember the words are contractions.

To give it the full lines.

Offside was not as good

Offside were not as good.

The first is pretty poor english, the second is correct.

the reasons have already been given.
 
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