Across the world’s languages, nouns are surprisingly chameleonic creatures, shape-shifting and category-hopping in ways that ...

When both nouns joined by “or” are plural, the verb is plural: “Coyotes or dogs are.” But when one is singular and one is plural, which one governs the verb?

For example, you may have one sentence where the collective noun works best with a singular verb and another sentence in which the same noun works better with a plural.

For example, rice, sand, sugar, and salt are all mass nouns. Mass nouns have singular verb agreement ("the rice is cooked"). Suds is a plural noun and has plural agreement ("the suds are everywhere").

Plural nouns Plural means more than one and a noun is a word used to identify something. So, plural nouns are nouns that are more than one. ‘ Birds ’ is the plural of ‘ bird ’, for example ...

Turning one into many isn't always as simple as adding an 's'! Learn how to spell plural nouns with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

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 ...

The usage that I find particularly irritating is that of a single noun with a plural verb, for example: "the team are happy with their victory", or "management have congratulated the workforce on the ...

8. Amends You might make amends by paying damages; while damage is a common mass noun, the sense of "a sum of money in compensation for a loss or injury" is now only plural. 9. Smithereens 10 ...

Singular pronouns and nouns must be paired with singular verbs.