Should one and a half be the subject and the predicate be singular or plural? One and a half apples___ left on the tables. A.is B.are I think one and a half should be plural. Why is the answer a?

Should one and a half be the subject and the predicate be singular or plural? One and a half apples___ left on the tables. A.is B.are I think one and a half should be plural. Why is the answer a?

This is a very interesting question. For "one and a half + plural noun" and "a + singular noun + and a half" as subjects, almost all the books published in China use singular predicate, but in recent years, some authoritative books abroad (such as Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, quark's English
You are right! The correct answer is B.
One and a half apples are left on the tables.
Whoever said the answer is A is wrong, no matter he/she is a teacher or a textbook.
Time distance as a whole is singular
The usage of half a / an, a half and half, half of
1. Half a... Or half an... Is generally used to express the quantity of "half...". For example: half a year, half an hour, half a day. When expressing a unit of quantity, the indefinite article is preceded by half, and the hyphen "half" is added between half and the unit. But in American English, whether it means quantity or single
The usage of half a / an, a half and half, half of
1. Half a... Or half an... Is generally used to express the quantity of "half...". For example: half a year, half an hour, half a day. When expressing a unit of quantity, the indefinite article is preceded by half, and the hyphen "half" is added between half and the unit. But in American English, no hyphen is used to indicate quantity or unit. For example: a half apple / a half apple.
2. One and a half hours or one / an hour and a half; two and a half hours or two hours and a half. Pay attention to the change of the position of the plural "s" in the above two groups.
3. The usage of half is the same as all and both. It can be used as an adjective (or determiner) to modify nouns, such as half the year, half the work, half the fruit, or as an indefinite pronoun, modified by the phrase of, such as: half of the work, half of the year, half of the fruit. There is no obvious difference between the two expressions in meaning. For example:
① Half (of) the girls are foreigners.
② Half (of) the fruit was bad.
③ Half of my friends live in this city.
④ In 1620, about half (of) the USA was covered by forests.
Note: 1) when "half + noun or half of + noun" is used as the subject, the singular and plural forms of the predicate verb are determined by the singular and plural forms of the noun, and the noun is the center word (see the above example sentence).
2) There must be articles, demonstrative pronouns, possessive pronouns and so on (see the above example sentence) before the nouns after "half, half of".
3) If it is a personal pronoun, you can only use half of, and the personal pronoun should use the objective case. For example:
① Only half of them came last Sunday. (we can't say: only half them... Or only half them...)
② Half of you are wrong. (can't say: half you...)
③ They invited half of us. We can't say... Half us
4) When we talk about distance, length and quantity, we can only use half instead of half of. For example:
① His old house is half a mile down the road.
② Mr Smith drank half a bottle of whisky last night.
5) When half is used as a pronoun, it is not followed by a noun, and it is not preceded by a definite article. For example:
① We only need half. We only need the half
② I gave her half, and kept half for myself. I love the half
4. Half can also be used as an adverb. For example:
① I have agree with you.
② This meal is only half cooked.
5. Adverbs half and not are used together, which are more common in spoken English. Not at all, not at all, not at all, not at all. For example:
① It is not half bad!
② The story is not half interesting.
③ - do you like Chinese tea?
-Oh, not!
6. There is a question in a dictionary of high school English problem solving (the answer is b)
He cut the cake_________ .
A. in halves B. in half
C. into halves D. into half
In another dictionary of middle school English misinterpretation, the following question is given (the answer is c)
The arrow split the apple________ .
A. in halfs B. into half
C. into halves D. into halves
Many teachers and students ask: which of the above two questions is correct?
The author thinks that the saying "cut sth. in half / into halves / in halves" is correct. Only in halves is used less. Take a look at the following example.
① Cut in half (into halves)
② Please cut it in half (into halves). (English Chinese dictionary, p.1441)
③ Fold the bill in half and then in half again.
④ Cut it in halves. Put it away
nearby
Look at the nearest one
Don't look at it together
It's easy to figure it out
It should be singular, I think
It's B
Only time, money and distance can be regarded as a whole
Is a pair of shoes singular or plural
The pair of shoes are made of leather.This pair of shoes is nice.Can I try them on? Why are they different from a pair of predicates_ ☆)
I'm sorry to say it's wrong,
Generally, a pair of is singular by default, because shoes are regarded as a whole
As for them, it's the next sentence. It refers to that pair of shoes
Because to try those two shoes, they are plural
What is the plural of hair
Uncountable, plural, itself
Is the predicate after one and a half months singular or plural?
Faster than a good time,a twinkling of an eye on this one and a half months have passed.
Time passed so fast that a month and a half passed in a blink of an eye
So,in my opinion,one and a half months is enough for him to get to know our system.
So, I think a month and a half of work is enough to make him understand our financial system
Of course, this is a controversial issue. Are there any more acceptable views?
When writing TOEFL, which is better?
Generally speaking, although nouns expressing time, distance, weight, length and value are plural, they are usually singular when viewed as a whole
Three weeks is already enough for you to finish the work
In addition, one and a half + plural noun "means" one and a half... " The predicate verb is usually singular
The latter is indeed controversial, but the singular is still the majority; if we consider it properly, we can change one and a half months to one month and a half, and the predicate verb must be singular
Is this pair of trousers (shoes) singular or plural·
I like this pair of trousers（shoes）.
Try ___ On.
A it B them
B plural concept
Is it the same?
Is hair a countable noun
"My father has a few grey hair.",
There's a hair in my soup. When used as an uncountable noun, it refers to a person's hair as a whole
He has gray hair. He has gray hair
I think it's wrong to add s to hair because it's plural
Uncountable pair
When hair is translated into "hair, hair" it is often used as an uncountable noun. When hair is translated into "animal and plant" it is often used as a countable noun
Yes,
If a person's main body is black hair, and there are several white hairs in it, then the white hair is a countable noun
Of course, it's the same with changing colors.
Think about it. Can you count the white hairs in the black hair?
incorrect
Is the noun followed by one and a half singular or plural? Is the predicate verb followed by one and a half singular or plural?
It's all plural
A pair of shoes: shall we use singular or plural numbers here?
The shoes here should be plural, because a pair of shoes is two, so there should be plural, that is, shoes, but the quantifier pair is singular, because it is a pair, so use a pair, other images to indicate that an object is composed of two parts, such as a pair of trousers, a pair of glass
A pair of shoes has two, so it must be plural!
A pair of + plural
Every pair of shoes makes every app strange
Does the complex form of cousin add an S?
Please master help, must be correct!
Cousin (plural form) is cousinrycousin ['k &; Z &