17 дек. 2013 г. · With the original sentence, you can say either. The pair was sold; the shoes were sold: so the pair of shoes was/were.

3 авг. 2005 г. · Saying "a pair of" is only necessary to tell us that we are talking about 2 matching shoes (rather than saying "some shoes were on the bed" ...

7 дек. 2011 г. · You're right, pair is singular, and a pair of jeans is a good present. A pair of shoes is a good present. The standard plural of pair is pairs.

23 нояб. 2008 г. · The singular is always used when pair refers to a set considered as a single entity: "This pair of shoes is on sale." A plural verb is used when ...

25 июл. 2013 г. · You'd say either These shoes were expensive (two shoes) or This pair of shoes was expensive (one pair). ... None of the shoes were expensive.

5 дек. 2008 г. · "This pair" is singular: This pair of shoes is brown. Compared with that pair of sentences, this pair of sentences is equivalent. "The ...

11 мая 2018 г. · "Shoes" is grammatically plural even if it seems to you that two shoes (a pair of shoes) is one thing. Are these his shoes? Yes, those are his shoes. Yes, they ...

27 мар. 2015 г. · All I had in the way of clothes were a pair of jeans and a couple of T-shirts. "Were" agrees with the plural items of clothing and with "clothes ...

If the speaker had lost, for example eight shoes and the shoes were all the shoes he had, then I might say "are my shoes" rather than "is my shoes, but I ...

17 июн. 2020 г. · There are a few quantifiers related to the number two. You can say I have two shoes, I have a couple of shoes, I have both shoes, and I have a pair of shoes.