Alumnus is the singular version of the noun, meaning “someone who has graduated from an institution.” It’s also the word for a single male graduate. Alumni is the plural noun for a group of male graduates or a mixed group of male and female graduates. Alumna is the correct version fo...
Nouns that end in “us” usually have plural forms that end in “i”. Here are some examples:Singular NounPlural Noun Focus Foci Alumnus Alumni Cactus Cacti Fungus Fungi Nucleus NucleiNouns that End in “is”Nouns that end in “is” usually have plural forms that end in “es”. Here ...
Criteriais a plural noun that takes a plural verb, as inThe four criteria were extremely strict. The singular form iscriterion, as inThere is only one criterion. In this article, we will explain the difference betweencriterionandcriteria, clarify the correct usage of the wordcriteria, and give...
Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb QUUXO, QUUXARE, QUUXANDUM IRI; noun form variously QUUX (plural QUUCES, Anglicized to QUUXES) and QUUXU (genitive plural is QUUXUUM, four U's in seven letters).] 1. Originally, a meta-word like FOO and FOOBAR. Invented by Guy Steele...
I did some searching and, having previously (like Bree’s client) understood fora to be the correct plural for forum, I ended up wondering if I had been wrong all this time. What’s your judgement on the forum/fora issue? William ...
The plural form fruits is not used as often and it generally refers to two or more different kinds of fruit. For example, one might say “The salad bar had a variety of fruits and vegetables.” That would be grammatically correct. But it would also be grammatically correct to say “The...
Both is used only with plural countable nouns and refers to two in number. *|both 只与复数的可数名词连用, 所指数目为二. 1 All three can come before a noun, often with a determiner (eg the, this, my). 这三个词都可用於名词之前, 常与限定词(如 the, this, my)连用. Half must be ...
02. Plural nouns Add anapostropheto the end of the noun: Thedogs’fur was muddy after their impromptu swim. This rule also applies for plural nouns in phrases like: Twocents’worth (= worth of two cents) Twoweeks’notice (= notice of two weeks) ...
The hypothesis is that the insertion of plural forms of an embedded language(corresponding to SL) into a matrix language (corresponding to RL) acts as ananchoring of such morphemes and paves the way for their later spreading to lex-emes belonging to the native stock of the matrix language....
(both back then in Copenhagen, Denmark, Bartek is now at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden), whom I once met when interviewing for an EMBO fellowship (which I got). It is a pity Lukas and Bartek could not convince Helin to correct or better to retract that paper. It is namely...