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Healer Posted 14 years ago
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Should we say "a minutes"?

We say a means of doing something, do we say a minutes of a meeting? Do we refer to that minutes or those minutes of a particular meeting?
  

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healer do we say a minutes of a meeting? No. The two are different.

— CalifJim

  • healer do we say a minutes of a meeting?
  • No.
  • The two are different.
  • a means , but not a minutes .
  • the means (singular), the minutes (plural).
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healerdo we say a minutes of a meeting?
No. The two are different. a means, but not a minutes. the means (singular), the minutes (plural).

those minutes of a particular meeting.

CJ
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I was using the word "means", which is according to my Oxford dictionary an instrument, agency, method, or course of action, by which some object is or may be attained, or some result is or may be brought about, as an example because it is a plural noun that takes a singular determiner.

However I am not sure about the plural noun "minutes" when it refers to a brief summary of the proceedi
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healer Are you saying we should say "those minutes" of that meeting even it is only one record, not "that minutes"?
Yes, that's what I'm saying.

CJ
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Thanks for your help.
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