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31. a staff of ten or plural:I have ten staff working for me. If it is the subject of a verb this verb is plural:The staff in this shop are very helpful.

32. To make the plural of 'dog', you add the plural ending '-s'.

33. Everyone needs to feel he is loved, but this is not now acceptable. Instead, after everybody, everyone, anybody, anyone, somebody, someone, etc. one of the plural pronouns they, them, and their is often used:Does everybody know what they want?

34. In 'Tom likes jazz', and 'They like rock music', the singular verb 'likes' agrees with the subject 'Tom' and the plural verb 'like' agrees with the pronoun 'they'.

35. Should the verb be in the singular or the plural?

36. " One box " is singular; " two boxes " is plural.

37. I stayed in England a lot of weeks. When a lot of/lots of means 'many', it takes a plural verb:Lots of people like Italian food. You can also use plenty of :Plenty of stores stay open late. These phrases can also be used in questions and negative sentences.

38. Everyone knows what's best for him or herself. He/she or he can also be used in writing:If in doubt, ask your doctor. He/she can give you more information. These uses can seem awkward when they are used a lot. It is better to try to change the sentence, using a plural noun. Instead of saying:A baby cries when he or she is tired you can say Babies cry when they are tired.

39. The word 'teeth' is plural - in the singular it's 'tooth'.

40. 'Are' is the second person plural of the verb 'to be'.

41. 'They are' is the third person plural of the verb 'to be'.

42. First consider the overall incidence of plural references.

43. The second major observation is that mixed description types result in a low incidence of plural continuations.

44. Strange Singulars Sometimes the plural or singular form of a noun is so rarely used that people forget what it is.

45. Note that criteria, data and dicta are plural words: the singulars are criterion(Sentencedict), datum and dictum.

46. The words hawa and its plural alma occur some thirty times in the Koran as the negative pole of the ideal city.

47. This distinction between singular and plural, properly considered, raises a further substantial complication.

48. The council will be set up at the start of March and will be plural and representative, he said.

49. The plural is important here for there can be no single or homogeneous strategy against racism because racism itself is never homogeneous.

50. These languages have a dual form in addition to singular and plural forms.

51. One possibility relates to the many cases where plural reference is made under conditions which our results show to be relatively unfavourable.

52. Plural references are less likely to be elicited by mixed description-types.

53. The letter $ is introduced in the second volume as a plural suffix to graphic symbols.

54. Rather[Sentencedict.com], it is an examination of constraints which militate for or against plural reference.

55. Although his proposal of plural worlds was considered heretical, it is difficult to believe it was that which determined his fate.

56. Given the complexities and plural nature of urban development other agencies must be closely involved.

57. Figure 1 Proportion of continuations using plural pronouns co-referential with the protagonists in the stimulus sentence.

58. For example under the headword child is the information that the plural is children rather than childs.

59. This line of reasoning is intended to provide a means for felicitous plural and singular pronominal reference under appropriate circumstances.

60. The numbers are collapsed by same description types, since the absolute incidence of both in plural conditions is not that great.