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Inchoateknowledge wrote Police is a plural noun can not have singular verb attached to it thus not collective noun army is a singular countable one There is no reason for why it is so BTW I could not download the link I tend to disagree Police is mostly considered and used as a singular...

Inchoateknowledge wrote Police is a plural noun can not have singular verb attached to it thus not collective noun army is a singular countable one There is no reason for why it is so BTW I could not download the link So it means that there are plural nouns that always take plural verbs Can you...

Police is a plural noun can not have singular verb attached to it thus not collective noun army is a singular countable one There is no reason for why it is so BTW I could not download the link

I m surprised you think it s been clarified as I find some of the answers above rather confusing Look at it like this When you re referring to singular nouns it s always singular even if there are lots of them Here s an example What was in the room There WAS a television a radio a sofa and a...

People can be singular when it is used as a collective noun The following excerpt is from wikipedia A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society In common usage the term people may be synonymous with human or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning In...

None can be used in formal writing with either a singular or a plural verb depending on context This topic has been amply discussed in the following usage note from American Heritage Dictionary Usage Note It is widely asserted that none is equivalent to no one and hence requires a singular verb...

Clive As stated earlier crux is singular If it is the subject you need a singular verb Thus it s simply ungrammatical to say the crux of the problems have been I wouldn t go so far as to say it s ungrammatical Lots of speakers make the verb agree with the closest noun

I would say Everybody who whom that I know has gone away and I ll miss them Everybody takes a singular verb but can be followed by a plural pronoun Everybody has to take off his hat or Everybody has to take off their hats CheersCB

Just for additional information here is the usage notes from a dictionary When what is the subject of a clause it may be construed as singular or plural depending on the sense It is singular when taken as the equivalent of that which or the thing which as in I see what seems to be a dead tree and...

Hi 1 Which one is right or are they both right Everything went smooth Everything went smoothly In your example you need the adverbial form Smoothly modifies went ie it describes the going not everything However consider When I fell and hit my head everything went black Here black is an adjective...