is the couple singular or plural?
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Couple is a singular noun. It is, however, also a collective noun, and these creatures will sometimes find themselves paired with a plural verb, and sometimes with a singular one.
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Although the plural form is most often used generically for the dish it is perfectly correct to use the singular. "Scrambled eggs." YourDictionary. LoveToKnow. www.yourdictionary.com/scrambled-eggs.
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“Personnel” can be both singular and plural. Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage and Dictionary.com note that some people object to “personnel” being plural, but that the plural use is widespread and acceptable.
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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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In addition, his, her, its, one's, and their are the singular and plural third-person possessive determiners. Unlike first-person (I, our, we, us, ours) and second-person pronouns (you, your, yours), third-person pronouns in the singular are marked for gender: he and she, him and her, his and hers, himself and herself.
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The word "us" indicates that "all" here refers to several people (which is a countable noun) and "all" is therefore plural. So the sentence should read: All of us love all of you.
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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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usage note for pair When modified by a number, pairs is the more common form, especially referring to persons: Six pairs of masked dancers led the procession. The unmarked plural pair is used mainly in reference to inanimate objects or nonhumans: He has three pair (or pairs ) of loafers.
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If it's singular, like 'space' or 'water' or 'love', then you use the singular form of the verb: There's plenty of love to go around. There is plenty of space in the back of that car. If the plenty is plural: girls, apples, times, then the verb form should be plural; There are plenty of girls on that team.
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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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Indefinite pronouns that end in -body are always singular. These words include anybody, somebody, nobody. The indefinite pronouns both, few, many, others, and several are always plural.
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Plural means more than one. For example, 'shoes' is the plural of 'shoe', which is singular.
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When used as nouns, couple means two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship, whereas pair means two similar or identical things taken together.
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In your sentence, there are two eyes, so, in your case, it should be plural. (Our) Eyes are the most precious organs of our body. However, you should also consider the general term "the eye" (as opposed to your comment about "an eye").
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"Lot" is the subject of the sentence and it is singular. "Is" goes with a singular subject, "are" goes with a plural subject. "There ARE lots" is correct because the subject "LOTS" is plural. When you say..."There IS a lot of animals"...that is correct.
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A: The phrase “more than one” can be either singular or plural, depending on how it's used, according to The American Heritage Book of English Usage. When “more than one” modifies a singular noun, it goes with a singular verb: “More than one person is going.”
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It would be singular. “Bunch” is the word that decides whether to use the singular or the plural. Thus, in “a bunch of grapes,” you would then say, “is $2.99 at the store.”