{"id":619,"date":"2010-12-09T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2020-11-25T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:23:44","slug":"the-number-vs-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/numbers\/the-number-vs-a-number\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Number<\/em> vs. <em>A Number<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression <em>the number<\/em> is followed by a singular verb while the expression <em>a number<\/em> is followed by a plural verb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The number of people we need to hire <strong>is<\/strong> thirteen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A number of people <strong>have<\/strong> written in about this subject.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choose the correct word in each sentence.<\/p>\n<p>1. The number of people lined up for tickets<strong> was\/were<\/strong> four hundred.<\/p>\n<p>2. A number of suggestions <strong>was\/were<\/strong> made.<\/p>\n<p>3. There<strong> is\/are <\/strong>a number of important announcements in the bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>4. Here <strong>is\/are<\/strong> the number of milk shakes you requested.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The number of people lined up for tickets <strong>was <\/strong>four hundred.<\/p>\n<p>2. A number of suggestions <strong>were <\/strong>made.<\/p>\n<p>3. There <strong>are <\/strong>a number of important announcements in the bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>4. Here <strong>is <\/strong>the number of milk shakes you requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression the number is followed by a singular verb while the expression a number is followed by a plural verb. Examples: The number of people we need to hire is thirteen. A number of people have written in about this subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numbers","category-singular-vs-plural"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}