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Similarly, we use a singular form when we mean or expect one difference. There is a difference in the quality of these two items. This one has a 'thicker' plastic. So, the 'thickness of the plastic' used for that thing is the difference (only one difference) you find. On the other hand, we use a plural form when we expect more than one difference.
3. "What is a difference" is grammatical, yes, but it's almost never what you want to say. It means: you are refusing to indicate how many differences you think there are, and regardless of how many there really are, you only want to be told about one of them, respondent's choice. The only situation I can think of, right now, where this would ...
1. There are two different uses. If you are using double quotation marks for speech, as in a novel or other quotation, then, anything quoted within the quotation marks takes single quotes: "He yelled 'Stop talking' at me several times," said John. The BBC uses single quotation marks in headlines and its online site (inverted commas) but in ...
1. A difference of is used to indicate the extent of a difference; it's a measure, whether a degree (temperature), a metre (length), a litre (volume) or a kilogram (mass). There is a difference of half a litre between the capacity of the two jugs. There is a difference of nearly a centimetre between the lengths of the tables.
Yes they are interchangeable and there aren't big differences between the two. However, I prefer using about, because for me is more informal, but you could have used both. Here you have a deeper explanation of the little differences that there are between those two: differences between "as to" and "about"
In the first, second, and fourth sample sentences, you already have a subject, the password, a boarding pass and the food, and therefore don't need to include an it.
Both express possession, of course. We use 's with singular nouns.For example, "my son's toys" will be "the toys that belong to my son".
The words "a" and "the" mean two very different things when referring to objects. "The car drove silently down the road because it is electric."
In English, the infinitive has two forms, the bare infinitive (which is used as the dictionary headword) and the so-called full infinitive (which is preceded by the infinitive marker "to"). Some grammars refer to "the verb be " and others refer to "the verb to be ". For example, if one book states that "the 3rd person singular of be is is " and ...
1. "Difference" can be understood in both an uncountable and a countable form. "I can't see any difference between the two". feels more natural than: "I can't see any differences between the two". unless it was understood that it is expected that the speaker ought to be able to find a number of specific differences, for example, as in a "spot ...