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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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plural or singular

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00Why the plural one is preferred or correct (as CalifJim seemed to have said)?02br
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00Please look up01u00 the definitions (definition??)02u00 of the words in the dictionary. 0-
  

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02br 00Maybe someone else can weigh in on this. 02br 00CJ 0-

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0If there are word01u01b00s02b02u00 to look up, how can there be only one definition?02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10If there are word11u11b10s12b12u10 to look up, how can there be only one definition? 12br
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10Sounds good to me: many words = many definitions (in almost all cases, anyway).12br
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0 I agree with calif. Jim. I see why you might want to use the singular form, but the only way we could use that correctly here would be: Please look up the definition for each word 0-
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0Thank you, everyone.02br
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00Many definitions, thus the plural -- can we apply this to most (or all??) other cases too? 02br
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00How about this?02br
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00Many different prices, thus the plural02br
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00The price?? (prices??) of the domestic cars went up dramatically. 0-
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1i00The price?? (prices??) of 01del00the02del00 domestic cars went up dramatically.02i00 ["the" is not 01i00always02i00 wrong here, but in most contexts it's not required.]02br
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00When talking about general market conditions, 01i00the price of cars02i00 is acceptable in my view. It
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