🔰Grammar Rules based on NOUN🔰
◼️RULE 1
The hyphenated noun does not have a plural form.
Example –
He gave me five hundred – rupees notes. ❌
He gave me five hundred – rupee notes.✔️
Sumit stays in five – stars hotels. ❌
Sumit stays in five – star hotels. ✔️
◼️RULE 2
Nouns expressing numbers are used in the singular form with numeral adjectives.
Example –
Sheetal gave me five dozens pens. ❌
Sheetal gave me five dozen pens. ✔️
Two lakhs people attended the ceremony. ❌
Two lakh people attended the ceremony. ✔️
Lakhs of people attended the ceremony.✔️ (no numeral adjective)
◼️RULE 3
The collective nouns like committee, jury, house, ministry, police, mob, audience, team, board are used with singular verbs when they are used as a body or a group and not as members. When they are used as members then they take a plural verb.
( ◾Tip – when a group is considered as a single unit, it takes a singular verb and singular pronoun and when it’s considered plural, it takes a plural verb. )
Example –
The police has become insensitive. ✔️
The police was posted all over the route.❌
The police were posted all over the route. ✔️
The committee have approved expenditure of fifty crores.❌
The committee has approved expenditure of fifty crores. ✔️
The committee has not decided on the matter yet. ❌
The committee have not decided on the matter yet. ✔️
⚫Note – when a collective noun like committee, jury etc is not unanimous, it takes plural verb as in this case it’s not considered as a single unit.
◼️RULE 4
If a preposition connects two similar nouns , the noun is used in singular form and takes a singular verb.
Example –
Villages after villages was visited during the last election. ❌
Villages after villages were visited during the last election. ❌
Village after village was visited during the last election. ✔️
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