Okay, so forming plurals isn’t so easy. It’s even worse when the plural is part of a compound noun, meaning the noun formed of more than one word, like “father-in-law.” Most of us know that the plural ...

Uncountable nouns, meaning 'an amount of', normally have no plural. They are thus used with singular verbs, BUT with any/no rather than a/an/not a/not an. Compare the following: There is one ...

The proper, full-on Latin plural (“persona” being a feminine noun) is “personae non gratae.” There are a whole set of English words that are not exactly of the form “noun adjective ...

“Or” is unique among conjunctions because the way it joins nouns has a different meaning than the way its ... By nature, “and” makes singular things plural: Ned is. Nancy is.