Verbal Ability - Spotting Errors - Discussion
Discussion Forum : Spotting Errors - Section 1 (Q.No. 16)
Directions to Solve
Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'D'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).
16.
(solve as per the direction given above)
Answer: Option
Explanation:
Sixty miles is a good distance.
Discussion:
47 comments Page 1 of 5.
Deepika said:
5 years ago
For particular measurements, we use singular verb.
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Sagar said:
6 years ago
When definite numerical adjective is added before some nouns like mile, thousand, dozen, they take singular form. That's why we used 'is'.
(6)
Mazhar Ali said:
7 years ago
Here the person is talking about a single distance so "is" will be used instead of "are".
Here I explain with an example.
We say twenty munites are remaining not is remaining.
Another example is;
We say "all is well" we use a single verb after indefinite pronoun because we are taking " all as a whole.
Here I explain with an example.
We say twenty munites are remaining not is remaining.
Another example is;
We say "all is well" we use a single verb after indefinite pronoun because we are taking " all as a whole.
(5)
Yasmeen said:
5 years ago
It is according to the subject verb agreement.
(3)
Smriti said:
7 years ago
Five kilometers are hard to travel. Is this sentence correct?
(3)
Abhishek said:
1 decade ago
The measurement of any kind such as time, distance etc acts as singular.
"sixty miles is a good distance".
"sixty miles is a good distance".
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Sathish said:
8 years ago
Is miles singular?
(1)
Sampad said:
8 years ago
To express distance and quantity, the verb always agrees with singular form.
(1)
Prasanth said:
10 years ago
60 kg is/are price of mangoes?
Monisha said:
1 decade ago
These are common nouns which you specified for example we say I have two eyes we don't say I have two eye but considering the verb should be used in case of quantity or degree 60 miles is, 100 rupees we can use 100 rupee note but not 100 rupee.
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