Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...
Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...
I REFER to Dr Lim Chin Lam’s explanation of “there is/there are” in his article “Single or plural” (MOE, Aug 13). 1) Is there a proximity rule for there is/are? Does the subject closest to the verb is ...