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I guess cut here is a noun which means reduction lowering and cuts is a plural form quote user momento Q Is it possible to say take a drastic pay cut quote Possible but not in this case because you re talking about people not about one person quote user momento A large number of jobs were lost...

quote user Stenka25 Don t use plural if it is used as an adjective quote Perhaps as a rule of thumb you could say When the order is number unit of measure noun use a singular unit I m assuming we can use page as a unit of measure when describing term papers

The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Do not use an apostrophe to form the plural of an abbreviation or a number and the examples include acronyms such as PhDs and VCRs The Chicago Manual of Style So far as it can be done without confusion single or multiple letters hyphenated coinages...

Which brings me back to my earlier contention it is important to determine the number of your subject before you can employ a verb If your subject is a single group then use the singular verb if your subject is groups then use the plural I would argue that Irving s use of the plural are is wrong...

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 juries to reach a...

Very clear information Thank you CalifJim Just one more question to make it even clearer If I saw a True or False Question What should I check for each sentence There is a growing number of people There are a growing number of people Are both constructions acceptable Thank you once again

All as a pronoun noun can be used as a singular or plural Examples from the dictionary 9 the whole quantity or amount He ate all of the peanuts All of them are gone 10 the whole number every one all of us 11 everything Is that all you want to say All is lost As an adjective it modifies plural...

Thank you so much You said wrote 1 This is OK it is a list of nouns offers facilities such as dry dock boat hire chandlery waterfront real estate and restaurant Also you said Patterns needn t in fact cannot be so strict All nouns is sufficient parallelism here Please look at this and tell me if...

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 team I like the...

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 Certainly group and herd also mean many but grammatically speaking these words are singular Definitions...