Mistake/mistakes (question)    • 74   • 3   • 1   • English  Feb
11, 2012 11:03 grammar plural Do you think which sentence is
correct when I ask for the correction on my Lang-8 entries?
1."Is there a mistake?" 2."Is there any mistake?" 3."Is there
any mistakes?" 4."Are there any mistakes?"  I think the third
sentence is incorrect because the verb is singluar while the
noun is plural. Also, I think No.1 and 4 are both correct. I
think that if a person thinks there is no mistake in his/her
writing, he/she tends to say the first sentence and if he/she
isn't really sure whether there are mistakes or not, then the
person tend to use the fourth sentence.  Is my understanding
correct? The more carefully I try to look into small
differences, the more confused I get.