{"id":646,"date":"2015-06-02T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=646"},"modified":"2015-06-02T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:11:32","slug":"singular-and-plural","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/","title":{"rendered":"Singular and plural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because English is a language with very heterogeneous origins, many English words derived from French, Greek or Latin have irregular plurals or even two different plurals, depending on usage. Some words which may appear plural are in fact singular, as in the various names of areas of knowledge. Furthermore, the use of collective nouns and partitive expressions often affects whether the related verb is singular or plural. Finally, despite some notable exceptions, nouns used as adjectives normally revert to their singular form.<\/p>\n<p>For further specific guidance, please access the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"index index2\">\n<li id=\"criteri2421nivell2\" class=\"nivell nivell2 sense-fills\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/words-with-unusual-plural-forms\/\">Words with unusual plural forms<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"criteri2422nivell2\" class=\"nivell nivell2 sense-fills\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/common-problems-with-singular-and-plural\/\">Common problems with singular and plural<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"criteri2423nivell2\" class=\"nivell nivell2 sense-fills\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/collective-nouns-and-the-number-of-the-verb\/\">Collective nouns and the number of the verb<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"criteri2424nivell2\" class=\"nivell nivell2 sense-fills\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/nouns-used-as-adjectives\/\">Partitive expressions<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"criteri2425nivell2\" class=\"nivell nivell2 sense-fills\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/singular-and-plural\/nouns-used-as-adjectives\/\">Nouns used as adjectives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/\">Back to Content<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because English is a language with very heterogeneous origins, many English words derived from French, Greek or Latin have irregular plurals or even two different plurals, depending on usage. Some words which may appear plural are in fact singular, as in the various names of areas of knowledge. Furthermore, the use of collective nouns and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/646\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}