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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, mark lewis! I read your message from 23.03.2013 12:44   
      
    ak>> Let's take a phrase: THERE IS NO TWO IDENTICAL NOSE-PRINTS AMONG   
    ak>> CATS. From one side, probably, I should use "there are no..." -- I   
    ak>> tell you about nose-prints. For instance:   
      
    ml> it seems to me that "are" is correct since we're talking about more   
    ml> than one "nose-print"...   
      
      As I say that maybe the fact is more important than details. For   
   instance:   
      
      
   Yann Martel's Life of Pi (winner prize book)   
      
   -----Beginning of the citation-----   
   The lifeboat was now covered and the tarpaulin battened down, except at   
   my end. I squeezed in between the side bench and the tarpaulin and   
   pulled the remaining tarpaulin over my head. I did not have much space.   
   Between bench and gunnel there was twelve inches, and the side benches   
   were only one and a half feet wide.   
   -----The end of the citation-----   
      
   Check it out: "there was twelve inches!"   
      
   Bye, mark!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   fido7.english-tutor 2013   
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