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Please answer my 6yr old child's question
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13/06/2005 06:03:23
 
 
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11/06/2005 14:01:26
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visual FoxPro
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01022435
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>>Hi John
>>
>>>The is a beast in the English language called a collective noun, which looks plural but is gramatically singular.
>>
>>Okay. Seriously? I am not much of a grammer guy.
>
>I am not so sure about the grammatical aspects, but there are some common words in English that are ONLY used in plural, for example, pants and news (pant and new exist, but have no direct relationship to pants and news). However, I think the usage is plural, as in "my pants are dirty".

Aye, but here IS the news.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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