http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here. <font color=red>DO NOT post paragraphs and compositions here. Post them in our <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/EssayReportCompositionWriting/Forum9.htm"><b>Essay, Report and Composition Writing Forum</b></a>.</font>enXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)http://www.englishforums.com/English/Plurals/glzqv/post.htm#556901Tue, 26 May 2009 13:48:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:556901Philip0http://www.englishforums.com/English/Plurals/glzqv/post.htm#556901http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-556901.xmlI don&#39;t work in the field, but I believe the accepted jargon includes income and profit(s). Figures is usually in the plural, because the income is made up a a series of figure s (numbers).http://www.englishforums.com/English/Plurals/glzqv/post.htmMon, 26 Jan 2009 14:48:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:556890Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/Plurals/glzqv/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-556890.xmlHi, In a situation of talking about a company&#39;s or a small enterprise&#39;s (a store&#39;s?) monthly (or any periodic time) bottom line or performance level, I think I have encountered the plural words like &quot;profits&quot;, &quot;incomes&quot;, and &quot;figures&quot; used in the wording of some kind of descriptive report. Are they correct? Why not use singular words like &quot;profit&quot; and &quot;figure&quot; when it seems logical that when a company counts how much it has made at the end of some period, a single number indicating a bottom line would likely to surface, not two bottom lines. A possible wording in *** Company&#39;s monthly report? For the month of Febuary, our profits/profit figures/incomes rose 10 percent...