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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 3

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    I disagree. "Criteria" is a plural noun, which does not agree with the singular verb "is". If there is 1 criterion, it would be "What is the criterion for that writhing project?" If there are more than 1, it would be "What are the criteria for that writhing project?". (and did you really mean writhing, or writing?)

  3. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and ...

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    (criteria are [plural], criterion is [singular]) (criteria were [plural]) The next three should only be attempted by a competent physicist: (Brief explanation: ...

  4. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    Although the everyday meaning of plural is "more than one", the grammatical term has a slightly different technical meaning. In the English system of grammatical number, singular means "one (or minus one)", and plural means "not singular". In other words, plural means not just "more than one" but also "less than one (except minus one)".

  5. Talk:Criterion - Wikipedia

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    1 Criteria is the plural form of criterion. 2 comments. 2 Is this actually a disambiguation page?! 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: Criterion. Add ...

  6. Criterion - Wikipedia

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    Criteria air contaminants, air pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other health hazards; Criterion validity, in psychometrics, a measure of how well one variable or set of variables predicts an outcome

  7. Noun class - Wikipedia

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    according to similarities in their meaning (semantic criterion); by grouping them with other nouns that have similar form (morphology); through an arbitrary convention. Usually, a combination of the three types of criteria is used, though one is more prevalent. Noun classes form a system of grammatical agreement. A noun in a given class may ...

  8. Voting criteria - Wikipedia

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    Woodall's plurality criterion is a voting criterion for ranked voting. It is stated as follows: [ 68 ] [ 69 ] If the number of ballots ranking A as the first preference is greater than the number of ballots on which another candidate B is given any preference [other than last], then A's probability of winning must be no less than B's.

  9. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, there are also informal criteria one can use in order to determine syntactic categories. For example, one informal means of determining if an item is lexical, as opposed to functional, is to see if it is left behind in "telegraphic speech" (that is, the way a telegram would be written; e.g., Pants fire. Bring water, need help.) [4]