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Correct plural form of a zero quantified noun
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In the sentence "There is 0 mm of attached gingiva," is the proper word "is" or "are" when asking about the millimeters?
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It's plural: "How many millimeters?", and this is even if the number is 0.
There was a similar question but I couldn't find it, where the question was about numbers below 0.
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I flagged it as a duplicate of this: english.stackexchange.com/questions/13073/…– z7sg ѪCommented Apr 26, 2011 at 14:49
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@z7sg: There was another one, which I commented (I didn't reply because it's not in my answers list)...– AlenannoCommented Apr 26, 2011 at 14:52
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If it can't be found it's not a good question. Then duplicates are inevitable. I found that one straight away though.– z7sg ѪCommented Apr 26, 2011 at 14:57
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@zysg: Yeah indeed, it was the first one... :| I'll flag it as well.– AlenannoCommented Apr 26, 2011 at 15:01
There is 1 millimetre and there are 0 or more millimetres
1 is singular
0 or anything but 1 is plural
