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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,...

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...

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". ...

. pair : noun, plural 'pairs', 'pair '. When used without a modifier, 'pairs' is the only possible plural: Pairs of skaters glided over the ice. When modified by a number, 'pairs' is the more common form, especially referring to persons: Six pairs of...

See, this the weird thing. While that last sentence doesn't sound right, this one does: Are these the pens you're looking for? Thanks, but no, those aren't the ones I'm looking for.

Hi Hoa Thai There were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following: - Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense - Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination with the word 'all') - Word order (i.e. Does...

Hi, Anon, I think I see what you mean. In your first case example, to simply say that something "is" doesn't give very much information, unless you're a philosopher, like Descartes, "I think, therefore I am." Your first case example works best when answering questions. "What is it?" "It's an...

Hi LiJ, I was Anon, Hoa Thai's reply pretty well sums it up. The operative expression is, "informally, however," which makes a mess of your concers about second and third person. Formally, "either" is singular and the number of the modifiers doesn't change that. ("Number" is singular too!) So...

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

Hello, this is my first post here, I like to know these words kilometer centimeter Are those words noun if they are standing alone ? if it's, what kind of noun it's, proper noun or abstract noun or etc ? After that, I want to indentify the part of speech of the following sentence by using the...