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Latest post Mon, Apr 23 2007 8:18 PM by Yoong Liat. 2 replies.
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Anonymous  +  354660 Mon, 23 Apr 07 06:51 PM
trousers is / are
sunglasses is / are
jeans is / are
knickers is / are

How can I distinguish them ?
When a dictionary says that a particular word hasn't got the singular form then we use 'are' or 'is' ?

Thank you
Anonymous
Grammar Geek  +  354680 Mon, 23 Apr 07 08:10 PM

As an American English user, I would use "are" for all of those.
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Yoong Liat  +  354684 Mon, 23 Apr 07 08:18 PM
 Grammar Geek wrote:

As an American English user, I would use "are" for all of those.


In BrE  'are' is used.
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