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The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
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?)
(criteria are [plural], criterion is [singular]) (criteria were [plural]) The next three should only be attempted by a competent physicist: (Brief explanation: ...
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 ...
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band; The Diamondbacks are the champions, with one major exception: in American English, the United States is almost universally used with a singular verb.
Third, irregular plural nouns may be regularized and use the –s morpheme. This may happen when the plural is not otherwise marked (e.g., sheeps for sheep), when the plural is typically marked with a morpheme other than –s (e.g., oxes for oxen), or when the plural is typically formed through vowel mutation (e.g., foots for feet).
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 ...
For example, a noun or noun phrase cannot be both singular and plural, since these are both values of the "number" category. It can, however, be both plural and feminine, since these represent different categories (number and gender). Categories may be described and named with regard to the type of meanings that they are used to express.