Figuring out whether each is singular or plural requires a bit of thought because this ubiquitous English grammar determiner refers to one entity within a group of nouns
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” Many nouns known as collective nouns—such as team, family, and class—can be treated as singular or plural, depending on how they are used, but state names are not collective nouns and therefore always take singular verbs
Singular and Plural Nouns The difference between singular and plural nouns is easy to spot
My horse prefers to wear an A house has four walls, a roof, and a door
There are also nouns that remain unchanged, both in the singular and plural forms
Jun 12, 2013
" Collective nouns usually take a singular verb, because they are singular in construction, but they sometimes take a plural verb
For example, the singular noun dog takes the plural form dogs, as in three dogs
Like most nouns that end in “s,” you add an “es” on the end to make it plural
Because AmE takes a stricter line (such words are almost always treated as syntactically singular), I suppose at least
When the plural of the name is a completely different spelled word
Use of the singular or plural verb also depends on whether you want to refer to the group as a whole or to the individual members of the group
Each may appear after a plural noun and be part of a plural subject in a sentence
The general rule is that most singular nouns are made plural by adding an -s, -es, or -ies to the end of the word
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