Answer by Nadia Solovyeva for Why "оста́лось" is neuter?
The sample text looks far-fetched. Being native speaker, I feel like there is a mistake. Though it's not a mistake, just odd words combination. One don't say "тольконесколько" unless she/he has...
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Унасоста́лосьто́льконе́сколькосвобо́дныхместThe subject is несколько, not мест (see this question: why the verb is singular in this sentence?).Мест is in plural because несколько (and other collective...
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When the main word of subject contains "несколько", "много", "немного", "мало", "немало", "определенноеколичество" and collective numbers ("двое", "трое", "четверо", etc.) (e.g., "Тамбыломноголюдей",...
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Why in the following sentence , we use "оста́лось" in the neuter singular form while "не́сколькосвобо́дныхмест" is [Genitive, PLURAL]?I think as a plural subject, it needs a plural verb, but we used a...
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