@M.A.R. Please answer the two questions o

Many people told are to a great shock!!

@RajorshiKoyal well the idea is to trip learners because mathematics has an -s in the ending and looks plural, but it's really singular. So even if a more natural way of saying it is "I'm not good at mathematics", and examiner makes up this sentence to see if you choose the correct answer as 'my mathematics is weak'.

My mathematics are weak is correct or wrong?

Please tell me this...

Even I thought so...:-)

My instructor was wrong..

@RajorshiKoyal mathematics is singular

So is history or any other subject?

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Please check this link out..

@RajorshiKoyal Wow that's nonsense.

@RajorshiKoyal "history" is kinda like "people". It's sorta uncountable, refers to a big collection of things. But it can also be used in a countable fashion, in which case it'd still get verbs that agree with singular nouns.

You'd commonly see phrase of "A history of", I dunno, American agriculture or Australian indigenous people.

So "histories" is correct and natural in the sense of "big collections of facts that happened in the past", just like "peoples" can mean "several different 'types' of people gathered"

If "mathematics" bothers you, replace it with the American "math".

Does "My math are weak" sound right to your ears?

No certainly not..

If you ever needed to pluralize mathematical fields or something, you'd need another noun. "I'm good at numbers theory, linear algebra, and punching things into a calculator. My mathematical skills are great".

Could you give a slightly trickier example..

@CowperKettle How are you doing ?

@RajorshiKoyal Well one thing about this sentence is, as I said, it's probably not wrong but not a really thought out way to put it. It's much more common to see "The math checks out", sentences like that. I wouldn't correct someone that says "My math is weak", but it's something they blurted out, it's just going to sound clunkier the more you think about it.

So you can ignore the template to come up with better flowing sentences.

@M.A.R. Which one is not wrong I am getting confused?

"Duuude, the math behind that new NASA probe is lit!"

@RajorshiKoyal "My mathematics is weak".

And are?

Is it toally wrong without a noun?

No, "are" is just wrong.

@RajorshiKoyal hm?

ok

@M.A.R. These are certain doubts from Wren and Martin..

Why are they referring to these as stereotyped phases as

For conscience' sake,for goodness' sake, at his fingers' ends, out of arm's way,the boat's crew..

Also what do these phrases mean?

I am really not able to figure these out..:-)

What does this sentence mean

This is my uncle,the engineer's office.

Grammarians formerly recommend that the complement of the verb "to be", when it is expressed by a pronoun ,should be in the nominative case. Today the use of the nominative form is considered extremely formal and over-correct. We usually use the objective form.

Please explain this statement..

@RajorshiKoyal "Who's there?" The formal, old version is to answer with "It is I, THE DEVOURER OF WORLDS". The new colloquial version is "It's me, I'm a Wall Street guy"

@RajorshiKoyal out of harm's way.

You're asking about a pretty diverse range of idiomatic phrases, I dunno if they're stereotyped or anything, and I think you should first look them up in the dictionary.

Nominative case is what you often see in the subjects of the sentence. "I'm M.A.R." "She's clever"

"Objective form" in the accusative case is the form you see in the objects of the sentence. "Please don't hurt me" "@JimReynolds said some unfunny things about him."