Timeline for Plural vs singular noun [duplicate]
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| Nov 15, 2012 at 16:57 | vote | accept | Chin | ||
| Nov 15, 2012 at 13:17 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers Well, after word gets around he might encounter many such audiences. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 13:13 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: lol - Even "nicer" point! That particular audience would presumably have to be the one which is singular! Pluralistically speaking, I mean - there's nothing else particularly odd/unique/singular about them/it. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 11:35 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @FumbleFingers A very nice point. What about "Someday he will find himself before an audience who are not receptive to his extreme views"? | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 4:41 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @StoneyB: I don't feel at all comfortable with "an audience are inherently both singular and plural", but I have no such problem with "the audience are inherently [flexible]" (so it all depends which audience(s) we're talking about - an indefinite one, or the definite ones! :) | |
| S Nov 15, 2012 at 4:19 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 15, 2012 at 4:04 | answer | added | Noah | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Nov 15, 2012 at 3:53 | history | edited | J.R. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2012 at 2:47 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | Yes. It also works the other way round: "The students ... are this report's intended audience." Some people may be uncomfortable with it, but an audience is inherently both singular and plural. | |
| Nov 15, 2012 at 2:33 | history | asked | Chin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |