is alps singular or plural?
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The Alps is a single mountain range (collective name), in that case you would use singular. However, if you look at it in the way that the Alps consist of multiple mountains you would use plural. Hence, for most sentences both are accepted, except for: Are the Alps mountains.
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Yes all can be plural and singular but we're talking about the sentence posted above. So, ARE should be the right one and Dianelli is right. the thing they are referring to is singular or plural. For example, "All of her friends are here." All refers to friends which is plural and countable.
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Most usually the plural verb “are” is correct because you are almost always talking about two subject nouns, not one. Example: “I like both tables, because both are quite nice.”
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(And, yes, both Italian mountain ranges technically belong to the Alps. But most locals call the range in Italy's northeast corner the Dolomites, while those in the northwest, in the Valle d'Aosta, are the Alps).
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Foot is singular and feet is plural. ... Foot is singular where as feet is plural. Foot refers to 12 inch where as feet refers to more than 12 inch.
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In other words, if there is a plural it is on the real noun only. A few nouns look plural but we usually treat them as singular (for example news, billiards, athletics). When we use these nouns "as adjectives" they are unchanged: a news reporter, three news reporters.
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The modern trend is to treat all collective nouns as plural for reason of consistency. In your case, "array" is referring to many different "factors", so would be plural, but it would not be incorrect to use singular.
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You use "is" for singular, and "are" for plural. But you knew that. If the "company name" is used to refer to the company itself, then it is singular. There might be some special cases, e.g., there are teams from multiple companies at a sporting event.
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Strictly speaking 'datum' is the singular form and 'data' is the plural form. If you're writing for an academic audience, particularly in the sciences, "data" takes a plural verb. The data are correct. But most people treat 'data' as a singular noun, especially when talking about computers etc.
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The Alps is a vast mountain system in south central Europe. About 13 million people live in the Alps in over 6,000 communities.
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There is only one arrival under discussion -- your first one -- so the subject is singular. You used the singular word "arrival". Thus a singular verb and pronoun are called for. If you were talking about multiple arrivals, you would say "these are".
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"Is" is to be used singularly and "are" is the plural. They're collective nouns, so either is fine. They're typically referred to as plural in British English. A company is a group of people in the same way a school bus is a group of children.
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In Modern English, scissors has no singular form. A pair of pairs of scissors. Scissors is an example of a plurale tantum, or an English word that only has a plural form that represents a singular object.
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The noun goods is plural only. The plural form of goods is also goods.
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Both “twosome” and “duo” take either a singular or a plural verb, but a plural verb is more common in British English. All the groups of two I have discussed above also have plural forms: thus we can have: pairs, couples, twosomes and duos.
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It is singular. Una familia. It is also feminine. Usually, if familia is plural, it would be familias.
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The Alps are a mountain system located in south-central Europe, immediately north of the Mediterranean Sea.