The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

Spanish nouns have different forms in the singular and the plural. Learn about singular and plural nouns with BBC Bitesize Spanish. For students between the ages of 14 and 16.

When both nouns joined by “or” are singular, the verb form is easy: It’s singular, as we saw in “Ned or Nancy is.” When both nouns joined by “or” are plural, the verb is plural ...

And, when we look at the record, we discover the pronoun “they” has been used as a singular generic pronoun, alongside its plural uses, for hundreds of years.

The first three of these nouns have both a singular and a plural: gevarim, ishim, aneshim; only adam has only one form, both singular and plural.” Humanity, a compound noun, includes every one ...

Many is normally plural, but it takes a singular verb when a singular noun follows the phrase “many a” as in the following examples: • Many a teacher has taken the eligibility test.

What do erotica, stamina, and candelabra have in common? Oh, stop it. The answer is that they are all singular nouns that started off plural. In Latin, nouns that end in –um when alone often end ...

To quote the Oxford English Dictionary, "a collective plural without a singular; to express the latter, a phrase such as 'article of clothing' is used". 3. Cahoots ...

Most of the time, politics is used as a singular noun. Here are a few examples: • One of my least favorite things to talk about is politics, especially with my family.