Sentence examples for singular usage from inspiring English sources

Many are now using the pronoun "they" in as a singular usage rather than the binary of he or she.

The Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century.

More recently, there have been suggestions that 'y'all' might even have some singular usage, and the (seemingly redundant) 'all y'all' has been attested, although this is hotly debated, as Language Log explores.

In other words, two years after the birth of a new force in American politics, the Tea Party (there's that singular usage again) has proven itself to be decentralized, diffuse, and largely devoid of nationalized leadership.

As we saw, Frege emphasized that singular term usage is in indicator of objecthood, and Quine stressed that we are ontologically committed to that over which we quantify.

Is there a magic number of first person singular pronoun usages that take a speech from "taking responsibility" to being in "campaign mode?" Also, can't Fox make an informed judgment on that matter by examining the other words in various speeches?

Singular personal pronoun usage is impossible without knowing the sex of the person one is discussing, and in many cases sex would otherwise be utterly irrelevant.

In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it.

After citing various literary precedents for plural none, Lounsbury concluded, "There is no harm in a man's limiting his employment of none to the singular in his own individual usage, if he derives any pleasure from this particular form of linguistic martyrdom.

As with many other Māori loanwords, the plural form is now generally the same as the singular in formal New Zealand English usage.

In vernacular English usage, however, a singular noun such as 'pyridine' can be ambiguous between the specific sense, corresponding to either ' pyridine' in ChEBI (CHEBI:16227) and to the EXACT reading in the notation of Corbett et al[ 33], or the collective sense corresponding to ' pyridines' in ChEBI (CHEBI:26421) and the CLASS reading.