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Do you think which sentence is correct when I ask for the correction on my Lang-8 entries?
1."Is there a mistake?"
2."Is there any mistake?"
3."Is there any mistakes?"
4."Are there any mistakes?"
I think the third sentence is incorrect because the verb is singluar while the noun is plural. Also, I think No.1 and 4 are both correct. I think that if a person thinks there is no mistake in his/her writing, he/she tends to say the first sentence and if he/she isn't really sure whether there are mistakes or not, then the person tend to use the fourth sentence.
Is my understanding correct? The more carefully I try to look into small differences, the more confused I get.
1."Is there a mistake?"
2."Is there any mistake?"
3."Is there any mistakes?"
4."Are there any mistakes?"
I think the third sentence is incorrect because the verb is singluar while the noun is plural. Also, I think No.1 and 4 are both correct. I think that if a person thinks there is no mistake in his/her writing, he/she tends to say the first sentence and if he/she isn't really sure whether there are mistakes or not, then the person tend to use the fourth sentence.
Is my understanding correct? The more carefully I try to look into small differences, the more confused I get.
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Which sentence do you think is correct when I ask for the corrections on my Lang-8 entries?
Although native speakers will sometimes (incorrectly) use 3.
How about these:
Are there a bunch of mistakes?
Is there a bunch of mistakes?
I think "Is there a bunch of mistakes?" is correct because the verb agrees with "a bunch" although I understand why they are inclined to say "there are". Furthermore, if they say "There are a bunch of mistakes", I might have an impression that the number of mistakes is even more emphasized. (Is my conception same as yours??)
How about this sentence "2.Is there any mistake?"? Do you think this sentence is acceptable? To me, it sounds strange and "3.Is there any mistakes?" is more commonly used (mistakenly, in fact?) than 2.
No 2 is not acceptable, it sounds like broken English. So 3 is more common.
4 is the best, followed by 1. Although as you said, the meaning is a little different.