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 ...

In other words, they’re singular and plural at the same time. And since verbs are supposed to agree in number with their subjects — one cat is, two cats are — the roughly 200 collective ...

So usually with singular and plural, we do recognize that they’re synonyms, more or less. But we also recognize that maybe there’s something kind of unique to one of them or to the other one.

When these words were nouns, they behaved like nouns, pluralizing, taking a singular verb when single, and needing an of to attach them to another noun. That's right: "a thousand of cattle," "two ...

Singular data is now more common than the plural in books, and far more prevalent on the web. Data is hardly the first foreign word to undergo grammatical change in English.

Plural keywords will often seem less profitable than their singular analogs. However, when viewed from a multi-click perspective, they are more often than not driving demand to other keywords in ...

We have some examples where the plural ranks in top five and the singular isn’t in the top 100. Google’s John Mueller’s Answer The search intent should be very similar.

Politics is/are a noun that can either be used with a singular or plural verb. Like a tie-breaking legislative vote, politics can go either way.