Timeline for km plural or singular, "out of which 100 km is motorway"
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| Jun 9, 2015 at 7:17 | comment | added | user122988 | I would like to thank you all. These information is very useful. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 5:18 | comment | added | Fattie | If you believe that - essentially you are saying everyone at all times should use only SI units, in everything from song lyrics to daily speech -- I just really don't know how to answer that. When the writer in question (who is a staggeringly bad writer, but put that aside) used the abbreviation "km", the writer *WAS NOT USING the SI abbreviation. it's very likely the writer does not even know what "SI" is. Coincidentally, (one of the) common written abbreviations of kilometer, happens to be the same as the SI form. | |
| Jun 6, 2015 at 2:47 | comment | added | Mazura | @JoeBlow Why bother to agree on grammatical issues while ignoring scientific standardization? | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 19:11 | comment | added | WinnieNicklaus | I think you've answered the wrong question: the OP is not asking about km vs kms, they're asking about is vs are. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | Fattie | While you are correct that there is no SI reading "kms" - so what - it's quite common to abbreviate kilometers as kms. There is utterly no reason or need to use "SI units" in normal prose: you can use miles or leagues if you want. Mille miglia. | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 13:11 | comment | added | eques | "km" is an abbreviation for a word that is singular or plural. Thus, the use of verbs, etc which depend on grammatical number matter based on whether "km" represents the singular or the plural (and it's more likely to be plural). In some cases though, a plural kilometer distance can be though of as a unit (similar to "a dozen eggs" when "a" is used only with singular). | |
| Jun 5, 2015 at 9:52 | comment | added | Steve Melnikoff | Sure; but if you do use the symbol rather than the full word in a written sentence, you still have to make a choice as to whether the verb is the singular or plural form. | |
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 6:50 | history | answered | Mayank Vats | CC BY-SA 3.0 |