This kind of egg/eggs is/are..

[nq:1]If I have in front of me a basket of eggs/apples/peaches, when referring to them do I say: This kind of egg is.. OR This kind of eggs is.. OR This kind of eggs are.. ?[/nq]
Depends how many kinds you have. It's either "This kind of egg is" or "These kinds of eggs are."
I wouldn't use "egg" when referring to apples or peaches, or indeed anything else that isn't an egg.

Bob Li

[nq:1]If I have in front of me a basket of eggs/apples/peaches, when referring to them do I say: This kind of egg is.. OR This kind of eggs is.. OR This kind of eggs are.. ?[/nq]
Dealt with in the renowned Jonathan Miller
monologue (in Beyond the Fringe) about
Bertrand Russell's catching G.E. Moore
with a subtle semantic subterfuge.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ott

Don Phillipson typed thus:
[nq:2]If I have in front of me a basket of ... of eggs is.. OR This kind of eggs are.. ?[/nq]
[nq:1]Dealt with in the renowned Jonathan Miller monologue (in Beyond the Fringe) about Bertrand Russell's catching G.E. Moore with a subtle semantic subterfuge.[/nq]
I was part way through researching G E Moore so that I could post an elegant and witty reply when I

[nq:1]If I have in front of me a basket of eggs/apples/peaches, when referring to them do I say: This kind of egg is.. OR This kind of eggs is.. OR This kind of eggs are.. ?[/nq]
This kind of egg is rare. These kinds of egg are avian, those reptilian, and these bottled ones are mamalian.
This kind of apple is tart. These kinds of apple are for cooking, those for eating, and these others ar

[nq:2]If I have in front of me a basket of ... of eggs is.. OR This kind of eggs are.. ?[/nq]
[nq:1]This kind of egg is rare. These kinds of egg are avian, those reptilian, and these bottled ones are mamalian.[/nq]
Mamma Mia!

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]Depends how many kinds you have. It's either "This kind of egg is" or "These kinds of eggs are."[/nq]
[nq:1]The native speaker, uninfluenced by alien contact, would hesitate to declare that "these kinds of eggs (or apples, or anything else I can think of offhand) are..." since the idiom seems to demand that 'EGG', not 'EGGS' be used.[/nq]
Bob, tell us about your abduction. Were you p

[nq:2]Depends how many kinds you have. It's either "This kind of egg is" or "These kinds of eggs are."[/nq]
[nq:2]The native speaker, uninfluenced by alien contact, would hesitate to ... idiom seems to demand that 'EGG', not 'EGGS' be used.[/nq]
[nq:1]Bob, tell us about your abduction. Were you probed?[/nq]
Then there was that poor chap in the song who had no hips at all. But in Bob's

[nq:2]This kind of egg is rare. These kinds of egg are avian, those reptilian, and these bottled ones are mamalian.[/nq]
[nq:1]Mamma Mia![/nq]
Not enough twitches, what? I must find some means of altering the font so that I can see what I have written.
How's tricks?

[nq:1]Dealt with in the renowned Jonathan Miller monologue (in Beyond the Fringe) about Bertrand Russell's catching G.E. Moore with a subtle semantic subterfuge.[/nq]
Forgive my ignorance but I don't know what you're talking about. Please elaborate.

[nq:1]This kind of egg is rare. These kinds of egg are avian, those reptilian, and these bottled ones are mamalian. ... or anything else I can think of offhand) are..." since the idiom seems to demand that'EGG', not 'EGGS' be used.[/nq]
Is this idiomatic preference for the singular noun of general application or is it restricted to certain classes of nouns? For instance, assuming I am referrin