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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
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plural/singular

I have so many e-mail accounts whose password/passwords I do not know.
Should the password be in plural?
Which version is ok?
  

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I have so many e-mail accounts whose passwords I do not know. I think you should say that you forgot the passwords

— Jhumjhum

  • I have so many e-mail accounts whose passwords I do not know.
  • I think you should say that you forgot the passwords
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I have so many e-mail accounts whose passwords I do not know.

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I would use the plural, yes, although the singular would be completely understandable.

(I would not use so many, however, nor the structure as a whole. I would write

I don't know the passwords to a lot of my e-mail accounts.

Here again, the singular would be understandable.)

CJ
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