I'm not sure, this sounds awkward, but I don't know if it as a sentence is correct. "How could I be other than glad."
This sentence I'm pretty sure is incorrect. I'm not fully sure though. Shouldn't it be written "There should not be any secrets between you and I"? "There should be no secrets between you and me."
I'm not sure for plural vs. singular. "There are a piano and a phonograph in the room." Like all the others, this sounds awkward, but it could be right, I'm not sure.
"I have met but one person." Not a complete sentence, I think. Well it could be, but I think it should be "I have met all but one person." Right?
"Please loan me five dollars until payday." Not sure if it's composition is correct.
Can you put "most" and "unique" together? "The student gave the most unique excuse for being late."
Last week I had lunch with the girl (who or whom) won the English prize. What's the difference between who and whom?
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Neither Kenneth nor Larry have completed his book report. Is have completed his correct in this sentence?

Hi, here are the corect sentences;

How could I be anything but glad?
There should be no secrets between us.
OR
There should not be any secrets between us.
There is a piano and a phonograph in the room.
I have met all but one person. (from the group etc)
Please loan me five dollaes until payday.
The student gave me the most unique excuse for being late.
Last week I had lunch with the girl who won the English prize.

Who is the subject of the sentence e.g. who are you? but whom is the objective form. e.g. to whom were you talking to? However, whom is quite rare in English today, even formally.

How could I be other than glad? This is fine.
There should be no secrets between you and me.
There is a piano and a phonograph in the room is correct (and is conjoining two separate sentences There is a piano and there is a phonograph).
I have met but one person is OK (the "all" is understood).
The loan five dollars sentence is fine.
Something is either unique or it isn't. There are no degrees; so you should not put "most" and "unique" together.
The girl who won the English prize. If you can substitute "she" then you should use "who." If you can substitute "her" then you should use "whom." She won the English prize is correct; so "who" is correct.
Neither Kenneth nor Larry has completed his book report. Neither nor and either or make the subject singular; so you need a singular verb.

Hope that helped.

Alright, here's the run-down, sentence by sentence:

1) "How could I be other than glad?" is awkward. You might want to say "How could I not be glad?" or "How could I be anything but glad?"

2) "There should not be any secrets between you and me" differs slightly in meaning from "There should be no secrets between you and me." The difference is in emphasis. Both are grammatically correct.

3) "There *is* a piano and a phonograph in the room." The reason for the singular is that what follows is a list. This sentence is basically a combination of the two: "There is a piano in the room. There is a phonograph in the room."

4) "I have met but one person," is antiquated and no longer common usage. "I have only met one person" works.

5) "Please loan me five dollars until payday." That's perfect, except you're asking me for money, and I'm incredibly poor.

6) You can put most and unique together. Most can qualify unique, and unique works in degrees (much like beautiful, or stupid). Also, uniquest isn't a word. "She is the most unique girl I've ever seen." Note that most pretty wouldn't work, as you'd use prettiest.

7) Who vs whom. Who is in the nominative case, while whom is in the accusative or dative case.
Nominative: The subject of the sentence. "Who are you?"
Accusative: A noun that the subject is doing something to.
"Whom will you be eating?"
Dative: A noun that receives the accusative case from the nominative. This case isn't really considered much in English because it's largely exactly the same as the accusative case.
"To whom are you addressing the letter?"

So your sentence would come out to be "Last week I had lunch with the girl who won the English prize." If you won the girl, you'd say "Last week I had lunch with the girl whom I won."

If you are asking these questions from a personal interest, you should become a linguist! If it's for a homework assignment, tell your teacher I approve.

Final question:
Unless Kenneth and Larry are being payed to finish Bobby's book report, you'd want to make book reports plural: "Neither Kenneth nor Larry has completed their book reports." Neither/nor keeps the singularity of the elements Kenneth and Larry.

"How could I be other than glad."- I think it sounds awkward too. I would say "How can I be anything but glad?"

"There should be no secrets between you and me." is correct. The way to tell here is to take the YOU out and see if I or ME fits correctly. "There should be no secrets between I" doesn't work, so ME has to be right.

"There are a piano and a phonograph in the room." is correct as well. If you use AND when talking about 2 subjects, you have to use ARE instead of IS, even though it may sound awkward. You could reword it to say "Both a piano and a phonograph are in the room."

"I have met but one person." is proper. I is the subject, and HAVE MET is the intransitive verb. (MET is past-tense, and HAVE is the helping verb- there is no Direct object, so it is Intransitive) "I have met all but one person." means something different. The first sentence is saying I have only met one person, while your second sentence means you have met everyone except for one person.

"Please loan me five dollars until payday." seems correct as well. The subject is an understood YOU at the beginning.

Uniquest is not a word, so most and unique are fine together. . I warn you though- "most unique" would only be proper if you are comparing the excuses that several students gave, and the "student gave the most unique excuse for being late" Otherwise, you should change it to "The student gave a very unique excuse..."

Last week I had lunch with the girl WHO won the English prize. Using Who and Whom is always tricky. Here is a link...http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20021113.html


Neither Kenneth nor Larry have completed his book report. Completed HIS is proper here because NEITHER and NOR are being used. That means you are only talking about one at a time...the same thing goes for sentences with "either/or". BUT, if the conjunctions were BUT AND AND, you would have to use "have completed THEIR book report."

Hope I helped! Good luck!!

You're on the wrong website, or whatever the hell this is, to expect proper grammar, etc. There's a lot of morons out here.

1 It's alright!
2nd you and I or me and you
3rd there is a piano
4th is correct all but one
5th Could you please loan
6th The student gave a most unique excuse for being late."
7th who won
8th whom is usally used for a third person like to whom shall we award this prize to! That person may or maynot be present in the room!

The correct way i and simpler way is how could i not be glad.

"How could I be other than glad." correct, but needs a question mark.

between you and me."

are a piano ....correct

"I have met but one person."...today.

payday sentence is correct

most and unique are correct

who