ABSTRACT
The choice of singular or plural can be confusing in various situations, such as in the use of countable and uncountable nouns. This unit illustrates the main areas of difficulty and provides practice with these. Note that if a verb has more than one subject, it must be plural, even if the preceding noun is singular: Scores of students, some teachers and the president are at the meeting. Their valuable suggestions and hard work were vital. Certain group nouns (e.g. team/army/government) can be followed by either a singular or plural verb: The team was defeated three times last month. The chapter provides the practices for finding singular or plural. Stephen Bailey is a freelance writer of materials for English for Academic Purposes. He talks about Academic writing for international students of business and he also explains the use of singular and plural in English Grammar.
