Hi Amy >However, even when it means "many pieces of news', it is used with a singular verb. Do you mean 'a three pieces of news are reported' is incorrect? If so, this is a little different to an uncountable noun, isn't it? Because we can

Feebs11 wrote: News is a plural noun always used with a singular verb, meaning information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television. Hi Feebs I was taught that 'news' is an

Selecter wrote: Maya2 wrote: Nona is right Majority has plural value It's not always true. A/The majority of + plural noun = plural verb (are) The majority of + uncountable noun = singular verb (is) Moroccan is a countable

Maya2 wrote: Nona is right Majority has plural value It's not always true. A/The majority of + plural noun = plural verb (are) The majority of + uncountable noun = singular verb (is)

In the following cases, beer/wine/cruide oil are not countable nouns. Therefore, in order to count them, I added extra information and changed them as follows: 1. Two bottles of beer 2. Two bottles of wine 3. 1,000 gallons of cruide oil Now my

Believer wrote: Hi, Yoong Liat I was looking at my Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner's English Dictionary for the word 'ash' and it had a notation among other notations something like this. Can you tell me if that tells anything about its

Yes, "rate" gets a singular verb. It's a countable noun. You can have growth rate s as well.

Anonymous wrote: How is it that the word "information" can be singular or plural in context, but always takes the singular verb "is"? Also, why is its plural not "informations"? See this page for info on uncountable nouns:

Anonymous wrote: A Psychology professor at UC Berkeley said that dah-ta (like "dad") is the singular, while day-ta (like "today") is the plural. In other words, you would say "these day-ta", but "this dah-ta." I haven't heard this from any

Hi again ng, The subject of your sentence is "some of the items". As you see, the word "items" is used as a plural noun. Therefore, as pieanne said, "some" with plural nouns requires plural verb. But "some" with uncountable nouns requires