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g. "these data were collected"). Outside of formal or academic writing, it is now normally treated as uncountable ("this data was collected").
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- "these data were collected").
- Outside of formal or academic writing, it is now normally treated as uncountable ("this data was collected").
- To me personally, treating it as plural now seems pedantic even in formal contexts, but opinions will vary.
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By origin it is plural (plural of datum), and some authors treat it as such in formal writing (e.g. "these data were collected"). Outside of formal or academic writing, it is now normally treated as uncountable ("this data was collected"). To me personally, treating it as plural now seems pedantic even in formal contexts, but opinions will vary.
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It's plural, but it has been treated as singular in English for decades. I have almost never heard the subject-verb agreement "The data are ..." in my entire life. I was qui
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