Missing or lacking?

A Portuguese language It's a complex language and even native speakers have questions. One of them is the correct use of the verb miss.

Sentence inversion can easily confuse the way verbs must be conjugated. Therefore, it is common to exchange lack It is missing.

To know when to use foul and when to use missing, check out this article!

Correct form and when to use: missing or lacking?

To define the proper form and when to use the verb to miss, it is necessary to observe the subject, since the verb must to agree with him. Therefore, if the subject is plural, the verb must be plural as well.

check out missing examples:

• Lack the monkey on the list of Amazonian mammals.

As the subject of the sentence is monkey, in the singular, the verb lack follows the rule.

• One day is left for Susana's graduation.

The subject of this sentence is one day. As the word is singular, we use lack.

check out missing examples:

• Missing ten days to the end of the year.

In this case, the subject of the sentence is ten days, so it's plural. Therefore, the correct form of the verb is missing.

• Missing some documents to complete the application.

The subject of the sentence is some documents. So the verb is missing, by agreeing with the plural subject.

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