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Bloody_Kary
16 feb 2021

  • Ruso
  • Ucraniano Casi fluido
  • Inglés (US)
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  • Inglés (UK)
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¿Cómo dices esto en Inglés (US)? Hi, guys!
Could you tell me please which kind of verb (plural or singular) I should use in the following sentence:
There IS/ARE a lot of fish in my fridge?

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hellocello
16 feb 2021

  • Inglés (US)

@Karina27483 you would say “there is a lot of fish in my fridge”

edwardws
16 feb 2021

  • Inglés (US)

@Karina27483 If you want to say that you have a lot of different individual fish in your fridge, I feel like you could use the plural. If you are just talking about an abstract quantity (like the meat in cans of fish) I think you would use the singular.

Take another example:
There is a lot of cake left over. = a large amount of one leftover cake

There are a lot of cakes left over. = several cakes

The word 'cake' has a countable and an uncountable sense, but in the countable sense it has a distinct plural form. The word 'fish', however, despite having a countable form in addition to an uncountable one, doesn't have (perhaps more technically -- isn't used) a plural form, but still retains the distinction I mentioned in the cake example. Did that make sense?

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Bloody_Kary
16 feb 2021

  • Ruso
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@hellocello Thank you very much!
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Bloody_Kary
16 feb 2021

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@edwardws Thanks a million! Your words make sense! Thank you for your comprehensive explanation!
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