Sentence examples for use of the singular from inspiring English sources
My only quibble with Adam is his use of the singular form: "a belief".
Ha! Ha! What kids we all were!" "Please don't kill me please don't kill me please don't kill me," Ari pleaded, and, despite the sunset half blinding them all, and the large, menacing hand presently encasing the Minister's knee, the precise and vengeful Minister took note of Ari's use of the singular pronoun.
If you thought that CBS was conservative when it only added five new shows to its new season, look at what it's teen-obsessed sister network the CW did at its upfront presentation on Thursday, where it presented its new show (note the use of the singular) to advertisers.
The provenance of the BIP shows itself in the continued use of the singular term 'child'child
We make use of the singular value decomposition (SVD) and its generalization to decompose the whole system into parallel independent channels.
By the use of the singular value decomposition (SVD) the channel matrix can be represented as H=U Σ V H, where V H represents the conjugate transpose of V.
Some of the sentences in "Talking Back" seem designed to enact its author's loose, democratic approach to English, and to language more broadly: sentence-ending prepositions sit happily together with uses of the singular "they".
I kept this letter, sent to me by its recipient, Leila Hadley Luce of New York, to note the use of the beslashed singular subject Clinton/Gore, followed properly by the singular verb has, but then followed incorrectly by they.
Therefore, in all but the most formal uses, the generic use of plural pronouns ("they" or "their") have become acceptable substitutes for the generic use of the masculine singular.
In particular, it is shown that the use of singular values and singular vectors is computationally advantageous in case of multiple load case.
The proposed non-linear formulation is based on the use of singular or hyper-singular integral equations by BEM, for multi-region contact.
