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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... wofahulicodoc #211723 07/12/13 06:19 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland wsieber old hand wsieber old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,027 Switzerland "There is a total of twenty insects," sounds good - but if you consider the whole sentence, including on the wall, the case is different for me. It's the insects that are crawling on the wall, not the abstract entity "total". So I would prefer the plural, as in "there are a lot of insects on the wall". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted There is / are a total of twenty insects... Lionel Koh 07/07/13 02:46 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... wofahulicodoc 07/07/13 03:05 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... wsieber 07/12/13 06:19 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... tsuwm 07/12/13 07:09 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... jenny jenny 07/12/13 11:19 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... Faldage 07/13/13 12:09 AM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... tsuwm 07/13/13 04:22 AM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... wsieber 07/13/13 05:38 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... jenny jenny 07/14/13 03:30 AM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... zmjezhd 07/14/13 12:54 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... BranShea 07/14/13 05:10 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... zmjezhd 07/14/13 05:16 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... jenny jenny 07/15/13 02:52 AM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... BranShea 07/15/13 01:41 PM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... Faldage 07/13/13 11:50 AM Re: There is / are a total of twenty insects... Faldage 07/14/13 10:11 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,316 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 469 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 13 LukeJavan8 1 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,533 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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