There is no such word as “alright,” or at least there didn’t used to be such. I guess maybe today there is, though, thanks to the mass stupidity perpetrated by the internet.
A group of parents IS…………… group is the singular subject, not parents. This kind of mistake is taking over all over the place, thanks to the internet. It is just plain wrong.
Tsk tsk. Bad Reporter doesn’t write English. Neither set of parents IS black. Happens all the time. The worst offender is whoever writes the synopses (plural) on TV guide. It’s always "a family of four WERE or “the team HAVE.” Bad…
LIE down, not lay. Geez can’t anybody ever get those two verbs right? Years ago the dean where I was teaching said “we just don’t have that kind of money laying around.” The groan from the assembled faculty was heard out in the corridor.
“…you have seen FARTHER…” Further is an adjective. The two are not interchangeable.!! AN D there is no such word as “furthest.”