Jan 18, 2005 ... In American usage, a collective noun takes a singular verb when it ... It takes a plural verb when it refers to the members of the group ...

Oct 26, 1995 ... right and left pleural cavities. They'd asked that I change it to: Approximately 100 ml of yellow-tan serous fluid _is_ found in the right and ...

> file data? Like most words in English, the =precise= meaning of a word in any given context is up to the user (though he must ...

present". I'm wondering when the change from plural to singular agreement occurred. I'd like to put out a call to film enthusiasts to submit ...

A few plural-form nouns (such as some academic subjects and diseases) take singular verbs. ​. Economics is my favorite class. ​ ...

Mar 19, 2001 ... > verb or the pronoun and it doesn't sound quite right. I hadn't spotted that tendency, Robert, and it puzzles me. Always using a singular verb ...

In usage the verb agreement is always plural - "a number of trees were cut down" - but wouldn't the rules of grammar indicate a singular verb? -- "If you ...

... noun-plural,suffix,verb-intransitive,verb-transitive&includePartOfSpeech=verb ... Groups "Wordnik API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop ...

the notion of `nouns of multitude' representing a grouping of items. These nouns are singular in appearance but plural in usage. For example: *Oxford are ...

... plural and the iterative plural belong to the same verb stem (the singular imperative). If I set up two "Entry/Sense Pair - 2 relation names" relations, I ...

Apr 7, 2012 ... ... Noun, singular and Noun, plural on one occasion. ... I tried using the cluster tool search *_verb with the cluster size set to 1 as mentioned ...

OTHER Rules: Doesn't (singular) Collective Nouns :(class, family, group) singular if 1 unit Don't (plural) Titles—if referring to 1 book—verb is singular ...

(NOT the meaning of the word), you use a singular verb form... You bring up an interesting example, though. "Police" is semantically plural, but grammatically ...

Collective nouns can be singular or plural. Collective nouns take a singular or plural verb, depending on whether it's referring to the group as a whole or the ...

Collective nouns are words that imply more than one person but that are considered singular and take a singular verb, such as: group, team, committee, class, ...

with no singular). In other words, if a noun takes a singular verb, it's grammatically singular, and if it takes a plural verb, it's grammatically plural.

Tip 4: Uncountable nouns, such as academic subjects and currencies tend to require singular verbs, as do plural form subjects with a singular meaning (news, ...

Plural subjects joined by "or" will take the singular form of a verb ... A collective noun names a group but usually acts as a single unit. Common ...

Jul 21, 1998 ... distinguishes a collective noun is that although it is in singular form, it takes a plural verb and has no plural (in its collective sense).

Aug 29, 2024 ... The former, lexical plural forms, means that there are words that have a different form in plural and in singular. In some cases the singular ...