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

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    "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 ...

  3. English plurals - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    English has also borrowed the plural forms of loanwords from various languages, such as Latin (e.g., stimulus/stimuli) and Greek (e.g., criterion/criteria). [15] Some varieties of English use different methods of marking the plural, many of which fall into one of three patterns.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 June 10 ...

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    1.3 Plural of media. 15 comments. 1.4 Plural2singular. 10 comments. 1.5 Need an English word. 6 comments. 1.6 Latin Word For 'Volcano' 13 comments ...

  8. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    The quantity of apples is marked on the noun—"apple" singular number (one item) vs. "apples" plural number (more than one item)—on the demonstrative, that/those, and on the verb, is/are. In the second sentence, all this information is redundant, since quantity is already indicated by the numeral two.