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It depends how you view "the family". Pedants will say that "the family" is a singular noun, because there is only one family, and therefore you get a singular form of the verb. Increasingly, you hear a plural verb with nouns like family, staff and team because they refer to groups of people, and...

Essay on The Collective Noun by Sophie Johnson Traditionally, the noun that names a collective is considered to be singular. Being singular, the verbial that denotes its act is also singular: (1) The family prays every evening. (2) Australia is playing against Portugal in the final...

Hello ElaMiNaTo, hello Teacher E., I'm sorry, my answer was slightly confusing. A collective noun is the name for a set of 'something'. Without the 'something', the collective noun cannot exist. You can't have a 'flock' without 'sheep'. 'Germany' however is primarily the name for a...

MrM, I'm sorry but I'm still confused when such modifies a noun, cause I've checked several dictionaries on the net and all have little differences that bother me. So I'll try to make a simple summary of this. * You put an A before a singular noun, and you don't put an A before an uncountable...

I think I've given my opinion on this elsewhere already, but as for these sentences: 1-1. These days a vast majority of children avoid chickenpox. 1-2. These days the vast majority of children avoid chickenpox. In (1), the proximity of 'children', clearly a countable plural, makes the singular...

- singular noun; singular verb, vice versa Don't think it is as easy as you can imagine like the following One person is... Two persons are... I am… You are… Try the following. Fill in the blanks (how "be" is changed for the following?): Either of 2 people __ Either you or I __ Either I or you...

- unreasonable classification of (un)count noun (noun) I am going to explain how they are annoying (especially to learners, but not limited to learners only. Native speakers suffer too!) ...

"Every" and "each" are always followed by singular nouns. Even when there are two or more nouns connected by "and", the verb is singular. Every boy has a book. Every boy and girl has a book. Every man, woman, and child needs love. Every person needs love. I hope this helps.

1.some of the pie is missing. (Compare: some of the pies are missing) Here "some" refer to "some pies", plural noun uses so-called plural verb 2.none of the three is interested. "none" here refers to not any one (of the three). "Not any one" is singular. Use so-called singular verb. 3.The crew...

Data, It's an interesting question. I saw two usage notes. From GuruNet.com... Let's go through them. USAGE NOTE The word data is the plural of Latin datum, “something given,” but it is not always treated as a plural noun in English. The plural usage is still common, as this headline from...