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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Any new/s???

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00"Dear so and so.... is there any 01u00new02u00 regarding this and that."02br
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00Otherwise I have to say - is there any 01u00new00s02u00 00regarding this and that."?02br
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0 I think the correct one is "Is there any news...?" 02br
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00I was taught that the word "news" is always plural, right?:) 0-
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01cite10Pucca12cite10I think the correct one is "Is there any news...?" 12br
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10I was taught that the word "news" is always plural, right?:)12blockquote
10Wrong. It is always 01font00singular02font00 even though the 01b00s02b00
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0 Hello Cool Breeze:),02br
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00But if it has the "s", doesn't that mean that the word is plural? That doesn't mean that the rest of the sentence should be in plural too, right?02br
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00 Use singular: 02br
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00 such news 01b00has02b00 become common-place...02br
00 news 01b00has02b00 come out of the ....02br
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00 Garner, Modern American Usage02br
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0 Hello Marius:)!02br
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00I know I have to use the verb in singular, but, the word "news" is plural, isn't it? I know it has no singular form like "new" but.."news" is plural, isn't it?:'( 0-
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00"Dear so and so.... is there any 11u10new12u10 regarding this and that."12br
10 Otherwise I have to say - is there any 11u10new11font10s12font12u11font10 12font10regard
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1i00News02i00 is an 01b00uncountable02b00 noun.02br
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01i00Uncountable02i00 and 01i00singular02i00 are different terms. -----------I think0-
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01cite10CalifJim12cite11b10news12b10 [plural in form, but always used as a singular noun]12br
11i10This news is shocking.12i12br
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10It was this!:)02br
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00CalifJim says that "news" is used in the plural form, and
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0"news" is used in the plural form -- this does not make sense02br
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00Pucca, you are misinterpreting CJ's message.02br
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00'news' looks like a plural noun (there is a plural -s inflection) but it does not mean it is plural. 02br
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00"In conclusion, he is right!" Which fact do you draw your conclusion from? 050010id5
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0 I was merely quoting from my dictionary. It said that news is plural in form but always used as a singular. 02br
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00 As Maple points out, another way of stating it is to say it's an uncountable noun. In any case, no matter what you call it, it must be used only with an 01b00s02b00: 01b00news02b00. 01u00Not
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