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Hi Anon: The answer to your question (Cna adjectives be plural?) is no. English does not inflect adjectives for case, number or gender agreement with the nouns they modify. English does inflect nouns and pronouns (for number, not case or gender). Cubs is a noun, a proper name for a sports...

Hi Skrej & New2 - Do we now have a concensus on these three issues? (BTW, Skrej, sympathies on your "glaring error." I know how you feel.) On the first one, I may be missing something, but I didn't take Optilang's post as being in support of the singular...

person number gender subject subject & object object 1st sing. mas.& fem I my*, mine** me plural mas.& fem we our*, ours** us 2nd ...

Here's something interesting I found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they It is commonly assumed that this usage is due to the singular third-person personal pronouns being either gender-specific (he/she, himself/herself, etc.) or inappropriate for referring to people, such...

When you can decide on gender (male/female) and number (singular/plural), use the respective possessive, in this case his . When you can't decide, use their or his/her . Each female officer was required to buy her own uniforms. Each officer was required to buy his/her (or their )...

Point 1: It is not a matter of 'correctness'. They is commonly used for singular of unknown or mixed gender; it is today, however, frowned upon in formal English. Point 2: Your sentence commits a further error of style-- inconsistency of number and/or register. Irrespective (for the moment) of...

Mister Micawber wrote: Dependent clause, independent clause, separate sentence, separate paragraph-- the pronoun must agree in person, gender and number with the noun to which it refers . This is a simple rule. The only problem that remains is what to use for a third person neutral gender...

Dear madam / sir, Being possessor of an exploitation right concerning an innovating technology of communication described below, I solicit your attention in order to know if any utilization would eventually interest you. Kind regards, (letters into brackets are readable with a...

Krish, It's "declines". The form you usally encounter is "declension", which is defined by dictionary.com as (partial): Linguistics. In certain languages, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in categories such as case, number, and gender. A class of words of one language...

Pravinth wrote: Thanks i have one more ... become/becomes so it must be "He will become ...." and not "He will becomes...." or just "He will be ...." what is the differenec?? Please Hi Pravinth, "He will become.." is the valid construction, and "will becomes" &...