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Jury is countable. Countable nouns can be either singular or plural: jury/juries. Countable nouns can follow a, an, or one; many, few, these, and those; also can follow a number such as one, two, three... Example: A jury has been appointed to judge the trial in the Crown Court. It took three...

In grammar, "an array" or "the array" are singular. "The arrays" is plural. Array is a countable noun. That is why they use the article "an" or pronoun "one" before "array", and the article "the" before "arrays". ...

Use "many more" for a countable noun like that. There are a significantly larger number of girls in this class.

are /doing I hope this helps. I think Maths are used only in plural.

Hi Explor1ing, I'm confused too. Which of the two nouns needs to be plural? Both? The meaning of the sentence is unclear. How do you make a category? Are you cataloguing books? Setting up a new system? If you wanted to say, "How many book categories are there?" then "book" is acting like...

Grammar Geek wrote: In your example, with the slight change to I had some little alterations made, it sounds fine to me. Hi GG Your sentence sounds fine to me as well. I think the original poster didn't quite know how to ask the question he/she wanted to ask. That is obvious from his/her...

Yoong Liat wrote: As far as I know, when "any" means "any one, it doesn't matter witch" it is always used in the singular. Not correct. "Any" can be used with plural nouns. She can solve any problem for you. (= every problem, no matter what it is) ---> this is the kind of "any"...

I don't accept that clothes is countable. By most criteria for countable nouns, it is not. Countable nouns must be modifiable by a number. Countable nouns must occur in both the singular and plural. I cannot say I have many clothes, but I can say I have a lot of clothes. The wor is...

"A lot " means "a large amount". We use this quantifier with both the plural and the uncountable nouns. It’s the subject "money" with which the verb must agree in number and person in your sentence. As "money" is an uncountable noun, the verb must take the singular form "is". Other examples:...

Each child is to use a scissors . How many scissors should there be for this row of children? (page 19, Making Number Discoveries, written by Leo J. Brueckner et al., published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. In the above passage, "scissors" is used as a countable noun whose plural form...