Timeline for Die or Dice when talking about several at the same time, but individually
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 7:32 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Apr 21, 2018 at 4:05 | comment | added | Drew | You started from the premise that die is plural and dice is singular. Given that premise there is no ambiguity at all in what the verb form must be. (Modulo the fact that some people will say anything, of course.) | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 0:19 | comment | added | Jacques | @Drew, it's not about "understanding the use of singular and plural subjects with verbs" It's literally only about die and dice and whether you CAN use the singular noun when talking about many of that individual noun in some cases. Your example of "all" makes me question whether you're aware that "all" is an indefinite pronoun that can be both singular and plural. The thing I did not consider was that this is not another way to refer to the plural of "die" other than "dice" | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 0:13 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Apr 20, 2018 at 22:05 | comment | added | green_ideas | But, seriously, person/persons is a special case, as that article with its long explanation should have made clear. There might be a small number of nouns that words analogously but die (dice)/dice is not one of them. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 21:57 | comment | added | Drew | The question has nothing to do with die or dice. It is only about understanding the use of singular and plural subjects with verbs. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 21:30 | answer | added | sumelic | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 20:49 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | No; 'dice' is an accepted singular also nowadays. // 'Die' and 'dice' are the same lexeme; 'person/s' and 'people' aren't. You rarely have reasonably close synonyms clouding the issue. 'All [the] dice landed ...'. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 19:50 | comment | added | Jacques | The how about "Six die landed in different places", also, "All" can be both plural AND singular. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 19:49 | comment | added | Drew | This is a question only about singular vs plural, IMO. All are vs each is. | |
| Apr 20, 2018 at 19:46 | history | asked | Jacques | CC BY-SA 3.0 |