Sentence examples for with plural from inspiring English sources
They snatch at music as we snatched at movies, filling our heads with plural images.
None works similarly, agreeing with plural verbs when it's notionally appropriate.
This week, another favorite grammar gaffe: the failure to match singular with singular, plural with plural.
Second, along with Martha Nussbaum, Sen has, I think, essentially resolved a central problem for liberalism, namely, how do you reconcile universal rights with plural values?
I estimate that 98percentt of the 30,000 bigamists are males with plural wives, which means that there are probably fewer than 600 polyandrists in active practice today, presumably in a conservative ratio of one woman to two men.
Failing that, snappers and zingers were regularly landed on his foes: Hillary Clinton, Lee Kuan Yew, the startled John Ashcroft when attorney-general, and anyone using singular verbs with plural nouns.Hold that prognosticationNixon he did not dislike.
Your expression, "Were none of them women?", my correspondent points out, mixes singulars with plurals, and is just the sort of malpractice that GCSE students are constantly warned against - nowhere more, of course, than in Blackpool.
This may be confirmed by replacing mass nouns with plurals in the examples we give below).
In any case, a unified treatment of negation would be welcome, given that negation seems to create the same basic problem with mass nouns and with plurals.
Remark 4: The same difficulties also appear with plurals, as we can see if we replace gold by pieces of furniture and in the safe by made by John in the examples above.
