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It s all to do with gender Cactus and fungus are masculine nouns of which the proper plural ends in i Corpus is actually a neuter noun Hence the proper plural nominative case ends in a It s corpora rather than corpa because the genitive singular case defines the stem of the noun The genitive...

First off I m sorry for that mess It ignored the format I put it into I d like to thank You for such a quick response and correction I m not sure about capturing either I try to catch all streptococcus Mikrochem is a name I also wasn t sure about streptococcus is it plural I research many kinds...

Hi everyoneI just wondered if anyone could help I have to write a profile of a chinese learner of English completely made up In it I must put any difficulties that the learner has in learning English as an L2 I have got so far Intonation transfer from L1 may cause them to be perceived as rude...

English really needs another pronoun for cases like this Traditionally if the gender was unknown the masculine pronoun would be used In a grammar book from 50 years ago your examples would most certainly use his Today this would still be considered grammatically correct but might be considered...

You re right it was late and I wasn t thinking entirely clearly I was just thinking of their as plural rather than the gender neutral singular it has become

You re correct their is plural It s becoming more acceptable however to use they their as a gender neutral pronoun

Hi Hblaw Space is the space between words when typing on the keyboard I see that a lot in high school level student s writing Gender mix up and plural to singular are the most common I had to work very hard to keep from making these mistakes You are right about he and she sharing the same pronoun...

Grammar Geek wrote Can t we just say that because English lacks a non gender specific singular third person personal pronoun that applies to people we don t like being called it and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful we sometimes use the plural form to avoid implying...

Can t we just say that because English lacks a non gender specific singular third person personal pronoun that applies to people we don t like being called it and because attempts to invents such a word have been unsuccessful we sometimes use the plural form to avoid implying that the statement...

condescend 1 If someone condescends to do something they agree to do it but in a way which shows that they think they are better than other people and should not have to do it Collins COBUILD Dictionary I always thought of someone as singular gender neutral pronoun But in the above definition...