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Onizo Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Singular/plural

I have a hand size cracker(food), and it fell broke in two.

Should I pulralize it and say "pick them up" now, or is it still a singular cracker?

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Top answer

" But the first one doesn't make much sense. Your readers (or listeners) will understand that what's fallen isn't the same cracker you picked up -- what once was whole is now in two pieces -- so they will expect you to pick up what's there, not what used to be. Pluralize.

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  • " But the first one doesn't make much sense.
  • Your readers (or listeners) will understand that what's fallen isn't the same cracker you picked up -- what once was whole is now in two pieces -- so they will expect you to pick up what's there, not what used to be.
  • Pluralize.
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These are both grammatical sentences:

"The cracker fell and broke in two pieces, so I picked it up."
"The cracker fell and broke in two pieces, so I picked them up."
But the first one doesn't make much sense. Your readers (or listeners) will understand that what's fallen isn't the same cracker you picked up -- what once was whole is now in two pieces -- so the
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