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How to talk about two different counts
You could say:
The resident and transient populations both remain constant over time.
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The resident and transient populations each remain constant over time.
The word each can be used with ...
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How to talk about two different counts
I would suggest
Both the number of residents and [the number] of transients remain constant over time.
As it stands, your sentence suggests that the total remains constant, but the proportion of ...
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Fishes and Deers
English grammar has no systematic category for "plural of plural" words. Fishes is a special, anomalous case, and it's optional, not mandatory, to use it in that context.
Historically, ...
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Use singular or plural when speaking about multiple total counts
A way to put it that uses typical mathematical phrasing is
F is the vector whose ith component is the number of animals first captured on occasion i.
You could add the prepositional phrase of ...
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What's the rule for singular vs plural in "A number of parameters is/are"?
[A number of parameters] is/are associated with an open connection.
In simple terms, the non-count quantificational noun "number" (when used with "a") is number transparent in the ...
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How to talk about two different counts
You have the option of using the phrase "as well as of".
(A grammar of botany, illustrative of artificial, as well as ... - Page 49
Sir James Edward Smith · 1821).. Hence so great a ...
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How to talk about two different counts
From One minute English; Vocabulary; Conor (tidied):
Numbers of OR Number of? Which is correct?
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What’s confusing about this is the –s and the fact that both phrases
suggest plurality. Therefore, ...
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Fishes and Deers
The plural of fish is usually fish.
With the exception, when referring to more than one species of fish, you can use fishes as the plural. Yet, the OED does not recognize a unique sense of fish, “...
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Use singular or plural when speaking about multiple total counts
You are likely commenting out code, but if you aren't, then I would explain this as an indexed set. The point seems to be to associate a number with each capture event. So begin with the set of ...
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Feel confused about the use of "seem" or "seems" in these two sentences
TL;DR: In cases like yours, either version is correct; the plural form seem is what we would expect, but the singular seems is a common alternative. (My source for the following analysis is The ...
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