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Aug 3, 2005 · Member. London, UK. UK, English (Learning Spanish) Aug 3, 2005. #5. OhCaptain said: The good news is you don´t have to pay for it! The good news are you don´t have to pay for it and you can get as much as you want! News is always singular in English.
Sep 15, 2011 · Sep 15, 2011. #7. How good the news is is grammatically fine, in AE and in my opinion. But it does sound old-fashioned, so I wouldn't recommend using it. And even in old-fashioned terms, it works better as a musing rather than as an exclamation -- as an exclamation, it sounds even more old-fashioned to me. W.
Sep 13, 2014 · Apr 3, 2017. #7. Neni Candra said: Why Don't use I wait forward to hear from you instead of to hearing from you. .. what's the.. reason. Because it's not idiomatic and it doesn't really make sense. "To look forward to" is a phrasal verb defined in Oxford Dictionaries as Await eagerly. And it's always followed by the "-ing" form of the verb.
Mar 12, 2011 · Mar 12, 2011. #2. No, you cannot say 'a good news'. If the noun is uncountable, you shouldn't add 'a' or 'an' even if you use an adjective. For example, you cannot say 'a clean water' either. Some nouns can be countable or uncountable, such as 'time'. It is true that if you can say things like 'a good time' or 'a lousy time'.
Jan 9, 2020 · to respond to someone else's good news, I am not sure if that phrase also works as a response to good news for oneself. A: "I just wanted to let you know that I was awarded the scholarship I applied for." B: "That is great news!" A: "I am pleased to let you know that you have been awarded the scholarship." B: "That is great news!"
Apr 2, 2008 · Apr 2, 2008. #1. Hi, I was wondering what's the forms that is used in everyday language: The news is or are? I mean, since "news" is plural I guess that it should be followed by "are", but when I use it this way it sounds odd for some reason. I'd appreciate your response. Thanks!
Nov 4, 2010 · Nov 4, 2010. #1. Hi, I know that the word "news" is uncountable and to say "another good news" or "one good news" is grammatically wrong. (Please correct me if I'm wrong at this point!) However, I saw this usage of "news" on the comment section of an article on a news website. (It means this is not written by the actual news writer, but by some ...
May 28, 2020 · Senior Member. English - US and Canada. May 28, 2020. #2. There is good news. It is also possible to say "There is a piece of good news", but the simpler way is better.
Apr 9, 2007 · Apr 9, 2007. #3. You can't say many news. It's "there is a lot of news", or "there is much news", although "much news" is rather archaic. However "not much news" is current usage and very common. Note that news is treated as singular in its existence, although it was originally fully plural, so " are a lot of news" is incorrect.
May 11, 2007 · Spanish / Spain. Oct 25, 2007. #10. Yes, I agree with Soundshift. In Spanish we say " una noticia ", but the English translation can't be " a news ". The correct translation is "a news item " or " a piece of news ". You can also say just " news " but that's more like our Spanish " noticias ".
