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19.04.2016 · Like many nouns of this kind, whether population is considered singular or plural tends to depend on whether the population is being considered collectively or as individuals and/or whether the compliment is singular or plural, e.g. The population of Newton is behind me. The population of Newton are a load of idiots. I cannot think of a situation where the word …

15.01.2015 · Because these words are singular, they require a singular verb. As the subject of a sentence, a mass noun usually takes a singular verb {the litigation is varied}. But in a collective sense, it may take either a singular or a plural verb form {the ruling majority is unlikely to share power} {the majority are nonmembers}.

Please don't use all CAPS. The plural makes sense since the immigrants come from different cultures, and have arrived in different generations.

Subject of the sentence is 'target population', which is essentially a group. A noun that stands for a group is a Collective noun. Like other collective nouns, ...

It's a singular collective noun, just like similar nouns like “team” or “collection” or “set.” Although a team can have multiple members, it is still one ...

In American, "population" would always be singular and "populations" plural. In British English, there's a chance you could get away with ...

The plural form of population; more than one (kind of) population. Retrieved from "https://simple.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=populations&oldid=418410".

The word population is a collective noun that can take either a singular or plural verb, depending on the intention of the author. The noun people is plural.

population · ​. [countable + singular or plural verb, uncountable] all the people who live in a particular area, city or country; the total number of people who ...

However, the word “population” may be treated as a single or as a plural noun. If the writer is using it in the sense of a whole unit (a ...

20.05.2009 · population: singular vs. plural; Comment: The black population lives/live in the outskirts of the town. Is there something wrong with using the plural in the above sentence? I know that it is one of those group words which can take both a singular or a plural verb, depending on the specific situation and the speaker's perspective.

11.01.2020 · Population, like the electorate above, is a collective noun which normally takes a singular verb, with a possible plural override, so the sentence in question would be grammatical with either is or are: 85% of the population of the USA is / are Christian. This works because percent is a so-called number-transparent noun, like lot in a lot of ...

Answer (1 of 4): Singular. The plural form is “populations.” Correct examples: * The populations of Japan and Zimbabwe have different demographics * The population of London is bigger than the population of Scotland