1. One-fifth of the village population have brick houses here.
2. A large number of people is waiting to meet the ne
3. The students, as well as the teacher, is here.
Answers
1.Given : 50 percent villagers have their own houses.
20 percent of the villagers cultivate paddy.
33.33 percent of the villagers are literate.
80 percent of the villagers are below twenty five.
If we take literate villagers on one side then there will be at least 13.33 of the villagers who must be below twenty five as there are 80% villagers are below twenty five.
Hence, at least 13.33 percent literate villagers must be below twenty five.
2.Since “of people” is a prepositional phrase, we can ignore that.
Since “large” is an adjective, we can ignore that.
Since number is a noun, we can substitute other nouns, I generally use “cow” for this, although it doesn’t matter which.
The word a is an indefinite article which indicates that the noun in question is singular, which agrees with “number” which is the singular form of that noun, “numbers” is the plural form.
3.As far as I know, the last noun determines whether "is" or "are" is to be used. I recently came to know that "are" is incorrectly used here. Could someone please explain why?
Also, what's wrong in the following sentence and why?
Horse is a faithful animal.