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If we want to know the exact kind of a group of brids, should we say: A: "What is the kind of these birds? If we want to know the name of the kind that is facing extinction, how should we ask: A: What kind of birds is facing extinction?

Which one is correct? Improve this question. This is several unrelated questions in one, at least two of them duplicates of existing questions.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. What kind of bird is this? What kind of birds are these? Improve this answer. All those, plus, Which kind of bird is facing extinction? Which is correct if we have a limited choice, say, for example, a page with pictures of 25 different species. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Barrie England Barrie England k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.

How about" what is it? Kid Impossible to answer a question like that in isolation, and certainly not in a comment. It depends on the circumstances. Yes - that is a correct way to ask your question. You could also ask: what sort of These are all functionally equivalent ways of asking the same thing. Charles W Charles W 1, 8 8 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges.

Yes, you might ask "What kinds of vehicles do you offer? RetroCoder RetroCoder 1 1 silver badge 6 6 bronze badges. Can I say "which type of vehicle is a Toyota?

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Forget or leave? Full or filled? Fun or funny? Get or go? Grateful or thankful? Hear or listen to? High or tall? Historic or historical? House or home? How is …? If or when? If or whether? Ill or sick? Imply or infer? In the way or on the way? Late or lately? Lay or lie? Lend or borrow? Less or fewer? Look at , see or watch?

Low or short? Man , mankind or people? Maybe or may be? Maybe or perhaps? Nearest or next? Never or not … ever? Nice or sympathetic? No doubt or without doubt? No or not? Nowadays , these days or today? Open or opened? Opportunity or possibility? Opposite or in front of? Other , others , the other or another? Out or out of? Permit or permission? Person , persons or people?

Pick or pick up? Play or game? Politics , political , politician or policy? Price or prize? Principal or principle? Quiet or quite? Raise or rise? Remember or remind? Right or rightly? Rob or steal? Say or tell? So that or in order that? Sometimes or sometime? Sound or noise? Speak or talk? Such or so? Towards or toward?