I.e. in the sentence:
I'm searching for gardening related videos.
or:
You may download the two videos at this link...
Thanks.
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2Are you asking whether "video" is a word that can be made plural, or whether "videos" is the right way to spell the plural of "video"? (The answer to both questions is yes, incidentally.)– phenryMar 6, 2014 at 17:15
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dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/video_1– user230Mar 7, 2014 at 10:25
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@phenry - I was asking both questions, actually.– dentexMar 7, 2014 at 10:50
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@snailplane - Thanks for the link. The on-line dictionary I saw was missing the information on the plural of the word "video". Thus I asked here.– dentexMar 7, 2014 at 10:52
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It is common to use "videos" to describe a plurality of video presentations of some kind, so both of your sentences are correct. On the other hand, if a station has video in the form of three satellite feeds, it has three video feeds, not three videos. Video in the sense of video data is a mass or uncountable noun.
Now, your "gardening related" should be "gardening-related" because the two words taken together function as an adjective applying to videos.
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I was sure enough about your "video feeds" example usage, while not on the one I asked. And thanks for the tip about the hyphen. :)– dentexMar 6, 2014 at 18:38
Both the words are okay if used properly . If you are using for plural nouns then "videos" is Okay and for singular "video" is also good but I would like to suggest you to follow this format only because this is the more preferable format grammatically.
