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- grammatical number - Can I say stuffs as a plural noun? - English . . .
I know that "stuff" is a collective noun, but other collective nouns like "family" can be pluralized, but "stuffs" doesn't sound quite right to me However, the spell check on my browser says that "stuffs" is a word If "stuffs" is correct, why does it sound wrong to me? If it isn't, then why is it different from other collective nouns?
- Is “stuff ” a plural word? [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
Alf sold some stuff at auction Ben also sold some stuff Charlie also sold some stuff Dan didnt sell all his stuff We wish to say "3 out of 4 loads of stuff were sold at auction" Here the prefix "loads of" converts stuff to a singular collective noun phrase "plot of" works for land Not sure what works for "content"
- single word requests - Better wording for Among other [stuff . . .
There is a noun in Russian - прочее - which means other things, other stuff So in Russian, I would be able to say Среди прочего [ = among other, ] Unfortunately, in English I can't say Among other, [the message] will contain information about the following
- Should we write writing any stuff or writing any stuffs?
"Any stuff" is correct As you said, "stuff" is a collective noun, so in nearly all cases it should only be used in the singular form For example, That stuff is expensive This stuff weighs a lot! We can use a collective noun in the plural when it is describing types of itself, but not when describing a mass of itself For example:
- Stuff like followed by list. . . is or are?
The sentence: "All that stuff like cars and planes is releasing carbon dioxide " At first glance, it seemed wrong and I immediately thought it should be using "are" instead of "is" But then I stopped and thought about it and realized that it's likely correct, since the sentence would be "All that stuff is releasing carbon dioxide", which is
- Category name for Other fun stuff vs Other serious stuff
Thanks, all of the items in point (1) are great! Point (2) though won't work because "Contact Us" or "About Us" would only fit the "contact" page, not the copyright license or some of that other miscellaneous stuff I could use a term from (1) and use "Misc" or "Other" for (2), so this might work! +1 –
- Do you write here is some stuff or here are some stuff?
I am new here so sorry if this question has been asked before Which one is correct "here is some stuff" or "here are some stuff" ?
- Im trying to quote a point in the text and I want to skip to another . . .
When this works correctly, the reader can skip over the dots and the sentence continues smoothly on the other side Chicago style puts a space between ellipsis dots A period before an ellipsis closes up to the preceding word as usual, but a space comes between the period and the ellipsis
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