After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr. James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur demagogue.
The indefinite pronoun neither is always singular.
Neither is the negative counterpart of 'either' which is also singular. The basic principle of Subject-Verb Agreement says that the subject and verb must agree with each other, so you should use a singular verb because 'either' and 'neither' are considered singular; however, this principle is sometimes broken by a plural verb which can be used after 'either' and 'neither' informally.
Lani is liable for causing mental distress because she is inflicting emotions of anger onto Bill.
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Dialectal has one definition:
Relating to or constituting a particular form or dialect of a language.
"dialectal variations in pronunciation"
Contraction has 4 definitions:
the process of becoming smaller.
"the general contraction of the industry did further damage to morale"
the process in which a muscle becomes or is made shorter and tighter.
"neurons control the contraction of muscles"
a shortening of the uterine muscles occurring at intervals before and during childbirth.
"she was now in no doubt that she was having contractions"
the process of shortening a word by combination or elision.
a word or group of words resulting from shortening an original form.
"“goodbye” is a contraction of “God be with you.”"
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