in or on the bookcase / bookshelf | WordReference Forums
Jun 18, 2009 · A bookcase, on the other hand, is a piece of furniture which contains shelves, and you may put books in the bookcase by placing them on the bookcase's shelves. You may also place things on the top of the bookcase if that is a level surface. In this picture, the items are on the shelf. As the shelf is not enclosed in anything else, to say " in ...
There is a couple or there are a couple? - WordReference Forums
Oct 28, 2006 · There are a couple of new books I'd like to read. In the ladder case, you can't say There is a couple of books I'd like to read. The subject of that sentence is books, not couple! You could also replace "a couple of" by "some": There are some new books I'd like to read.
in page / on page / at page XX → open your books ... page XX
May 15, 2007 · The page is one of many pages in the book. On is upon, that is, touching the face of the page. The ink and all its patterns (text, pictures, diagrams, etc.) are on the page. " At the page" is the place within the book where you are ready to begin reading the specified page.
"There aren't any books" or "There isn't any book"
Jul 24, 2017 · When people say "Any ideas?" it means multiple ideas are expected. However, if nothing is expected, why it still uses plural form? It's normal that people say "I don't have any ideas." Can I say "There aren't any books." or "There isn't any book"? (Another thing is, I observed that people...
There are <a lot of><many> books | WordReference Forums
Dec 23, 2006 · America and American English. Dec 23, 2006. #10. jabogitlu said: A more "natural" way to say #1 is "There's lots of books in the library". You could say there is, but to me it would sound a bit funny. Because lots and books are plural, I'd make the verb plural, too, and say "there are lots of books in the library."
at new year / on new year's eve | WordReference Forums
Oct 18, 2013 · In fact "at New Year" is definitely wrong, because,unlike Christmas, we always say "THE New Year", (except when there's an adjective in front - "Happy New Year") And "on New Year's Eve" because it's one day. Michael Swan, 'Practical English Usage', numeral 82 number 4 states that we use 'at' to talk about the whole of the holidays at Christmas ...
'What's this?' how to answer it? | WordReference Forums
Jun 4, 2009. #3. Both "this" and "that" are demonstrative pronouns. The former would indicate an object near the speaker whereas the latter indicates that the same object is a little further away, even a very small distance, from the responder. "it" is a personal pronoun of neuter gender. It is correct to say "It is a book" but in the context ...
some book / some books / any book / any books
Aug 2, 2017 · Longman Grammar Practice book says "we can use some (of the) and any (of the) with plural countable, singular countable and uncountable nouns." I ate some bread. (Uncertain amount) I read some books. (Uncertain number) (I have no problems with the ones above.) But I don't understand what "I read some book" means.
students´s book or students´book | WordReference Forums
Jul 7, 2008 · - students' book (plural students' books): widely used by British publishers, probably less used by American ones; technically 'student' here is in plural: 'the book to be used by students'*) - student's book (plural student's books): probably both in the US and UK widely used; technically here 'student' is declensed as genitive: 'the book of ...
aren't any books / isn't any book | WordReference Forums
Mar 6, 2015 · There isn't any book on the table. There's no book on the table. There aren't any books on the table. There are no books on the table. They all mean the same: The table, as John Cleese might have put it in a Monty Python sketch, is devoid of books. And all are grammatically correct. Some of us just put it in different ways.