The curious minds at Aperture toy with the strange linguistic logic that makes blinking the plural of winking and other oddities.

Economic sanctions, as a general principle, have a history of failure in the 20th and 21st centuries, which penalize everyday ...

Example: I saw a dog in the street ... No article is used:• With plural or uncountable nouns when speaking generally: Books are expensive. (Not: The books are expensive.) Milk is good for you. (Not: ...

To be fair, the Mammoth aren't the first NHL team to go without the plural. The Seattle Kraken, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Colorado Avalanche and the Minnesota Wild all use the singular version.

RULE noun phrase (NUMB): noun part (NUMB). # EX the previous president RULE noun phrase (plur): noun part (NUMB1), coordinator, noun phrase (NUMB2). # EX the president and his wife These two rules ...

When the subject (the noun doing the action) is singular, the verb has to be singular, too. The same goes for plural; plural subjects need plural verbs. For example, “The cat runs” has concord, but ...

Nouns are commonly used as subjects. For example, “The curious student (noun) asked many questions (verb).” Here, “student” is the subject. Make sure your subject and verb agree in number; a singular ...

And what about singular versus plural, or compound words? The book Questions of English demonstrates how quickly things get out of hand using the word dog as an example: ...

Let’s start with various forms of disagreement between singular and plural elements in a sentence. 1. “Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are both 34, and neither have been engaged or married yet ...