query: Why is "bad news seemS" and not "bad news seem"?
positive_passages.docid: 17373
positive_passages.text: Subject-Verb Agreement
negative_passages.docid: 61303
negative_passages.text: "Infer" vs. "imply" — can "infer" imply "imply"?
negative_passages.docid: 43878
negative_passages.text: "The news is good." Why?
negative_passages.docid: 102140
negative_passages.text: "Pending" vs "Impending". Are they synonyms?
negative_passages.docid: 97922
negative_passages.text: What do infinitives mean in news headlines?
negative_passages.docid: 105502
negative_passages.text: "No better than" vs "Not better than"
negative_passages.docid: 118102
negative_passages.text: How does the phrase "Is something the matter?" make sense?
negative_passages.docid: 62358
negative_passages.text: Implications and Ordinary language
negative_passages.docid: 23041
negative_passages.text: Why: a relative adverb, a conjunction ... or both?
negative_passages.docid: 1733
negative_passages.text: Struggling to understand headlines that use ellipsis
negative_passages.docid: 42843
negative_passages.text: What are the differences between "seems not" and "doesn't seem"?
negative_passages.docid: 151473
negative_passages.text: Why do some words in the simple present end in -ed
negative_passages.docid: 14526
negative_passages.text: Which is correct: "has died" or "died"?
negative_passages.docid: 27736
negative_passages.text: Why is the present perfect used in headlines?
negative_passages.docid: 7475
negative_passages.text: "Effect" vs. "Affect"
negative_passages.docid: 117251
negative_passages.text: Why are "put" and "but" different in their pronunciation?
negative_passages.docid: 96685
negative_passages.text: "Is there something wrong?" or "Is there anything wrong?"