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Indicate vs Indicates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The test ids ARB1 and ARB2 indicate (s) that two different samples were used, rather than representing different test methods My colleague is of the view that the subject "test ids ARB1 and ARB2" is plural, and hence the verb would be in it's plural form (without an s) "indicate"
What is the etymology of ID (or I. D. ), as in something used for . . . Most dictionaries state "ID" "I D " as an abbreviation for "identification" rather than "identity", so it's no surprise that Etymonline directs I D "specifically" to "identification" E g From Collins Dictionary: ID in American English (ˈaɪˈdi) Informal NOUN Word forms: plural ID's or IDs identification US a card (ID card) or document, as a birth certificate, that serves to identify a
Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John? Commenting 12 years later… From the perspective of descriptive linguistics, I would say that "Thanks John" is used by native speakers, moreso "Thanks John!" When you use it, don't use a comma if in that context you wouldn't say it that way—if there would be no pause between "thanks" and "John", otherwise use a comma if there would be a pause
Different forms of the abbreviations for identification? Both the NOAD and the OED report that ID is an abbreviation for identity, identification They weren't carrying any ID I lost my ID card The term id is used in psychoanalysis, and Id is a variant spelling of Eid In some contexts, id could be understood as ID, for example in the phrase the user id used when talking of a CMS
Is Jack of all trades, master of none really just a part of a longer . . . Variants that are relative newcomers As for the suggested longer expression "Jack of all trades, master of none, but better than a master of one," the earliest matches I could find for it are two instances from 2007 From Drum magazine (2007) [combined snippets]: The full phrase is actually " Jack of all trades, master of none, though ofttimes better than master of one " Being multi-skilled
grammatical number - Does staff take a plural verb? - English . . . In British English, one can say "our staff do", because they use plural verbal agreement to emphasize when an entity is made up of a group of people, whether this entity itself is marked as plural or not This is also true of companies, bands, sports teams and other things which are commonly used in plural forms as well as singular forms The verbs are usually plural for one band or many bands