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Michaelting Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Steps and stairs

Which of them are always plural?

Stairs or steps?

I climbed up the stairs.

I climbed up the steps.
  

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Dear Michael Steps can be singular or plural.. - There is only one step up to the front door - There are five steps up to the front door I would always use stairs in the plural but you might find it in the singular - perhaps in Scotland or in song or poetry.. " Regards, Dave

— Dave_anon

  • Dear Michael Steps can be singular or plural..
  • - There is only one step up to the front door - There are five steps up to the front door I would always use stairs in the plural but you might find it in the singular - perhaps in Scotland or in song or poetry..
  • " Regards, Dave
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Dear Michael

Steps can be singular or plural..

- There is only one step up to the front door

- There are five steps up to the front door

I would always use stairs in the plural but you might find it in the singular - perhaps in Scotland or in song or poetry..

"Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there.."

Regards, Dave
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