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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Singular and Plural
While studying math, I found strange part; Credit card companies* use negative balances to represent when *the credit card company* owes *the customer* money, and positive balances to represent *the customer owes the credit card company money.
Sneha has a balance of 0 dollars with his credit card company. what does a balance of 0 dollars represent?
At the beginning, the noun is plural: Credit card companies.
And then the singular nouns are used: the credit card company, the customer.
Aren't they wrong?
Sneha has a balance of 0 dollars with his credit card company. what does a balance of 0 dollars represent?
At the beginning, the noun is plural: Credit card companies.
And then the singular nouns are used: the credit card company, the customer.
Aren't they wrong?
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Anonymous Aren't they wrong? No. Singularity/plurality needn't carry over from sentence to sentence.
- Anonymous Aren't they wrong?
- No.
- Singularity/plurality needn't carry over from sentence to sentence.
- The first plural refers to companies in general.
- The subsequent singular refers to any particular company's book entry.
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AnonymousAren't they wrong?No. Singularity/plurality needn't carry over from sentence to sentence. The first plural refers to companies in general. The subsequent singular refers to any particular company's book entry.
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