And Then There Were None This is the title of A. Christie's mystery novel. Why is there the verb "were" used instead of "was"? Are in this case these two verbs interchangeable?

I was solving some English tests when I stumbled upon this. I said "the" but my English teacher insisted on "an". I was unable to find anything similar on the corpus. Should it be "the" or "an"? The full sentence: Did the/an/a Austrian man fly faster than light or sound when he did the hig...

My understanding of ‘familiarity’ according to the theories of Christophersen, Karttunen, and Heim is that it does not embrace those referents interpreted under ‘accommodation,’ ‘inferrability,’ or ‘bridging.’ Is my understanding correct? I went into the class and talked to the teacher. [the tea...

Sometime after peeling your orange, you notice that there are also some underdeveloped segments inside it (figure 1), or at its base (figure 2). What do you call these tiny, underdeveloped segments (which are shown by arrows in the below pictures) in casual English? (In Persian, we casually cal...

So, I wrote this short paragraph in another SE site: Despite what was feared by what was known as the surveillance threat on freedom of the 2010's, none of the world great nations became a police state. Civil rights organizations had "won" several battles that assured guarantees on individual...

Language Transfer is the term for influence of the mother tongue (L1) on the production of the target language (L2). Language transfer can be both positive and negative. So, for example, positive transfer accounts for L1 German speakers saying something like: Careful! The glass has a crack! (...

Here is the sentence I'm constructing: "To begin, you'll need your school ID, username, and password; if you don't already have this information, your school can provide you with them." My problem is that it looks like I'm mixing singular and plural here; "them" in this context is referring bac...