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28.07.2006 · Jul 28, 2006. #2. Population in English is conjugated in the 3rd person singular. Example: What is the population of Caracas? The population of Canadian cities is changing.

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

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

Jan 12, 2020 · "Population" is a singular noun, so one would expect singular agreement. But it's also a collective noun, so singular agreement can be overridden, i.e. you can use either singular "is" or plural "are".

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 information can used in the plural, except the technical one where it means a complaint laid before a justice of the peace.

Jan 15, 2015 · In this example, 'target population' is functioning as the noun to the verb 'was'. What form of a noun - target population is a group, in my opinion [therefore a Mass or Collective noun]. When referred to as a group, a Collective noun will typically take a singular verb.

19.04.2016 · There are some words such as population, crowd, police, people etc., which can behave both as a singular or plural noun depending on how they are used in a sentence. Then there are some words like information where you do not quantify by saying an information or two informations. Rather you would say some information or a piece of information.

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 Singular.

"Population" is a singular noun, so one would expect singular agreement. But it's also a collective noun, so singular agreement can be ...

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 ...

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

Oct 27, 2020 · Here, the head of the oblique is "population", and since this is a collective noun, singular agreement can be overridden. Thus "sixty-seven percent of Unites States' population" can take either singular "plays" or plural "play".

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 ...

population noun OPAL W OPAL S /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/ /ˌpɑːpjuˈleɪʃn/ [countable + singular or plural verb, uncountable] all the people who live in a particular area, city or country; the total number of people who live there One third of the world’s population consumes/consume two thirds of …

Population is singular even though its meaning represents a large group . Example ; The population of Texas is large . You would not say: The population of ...

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}.

28.01.2016 · Panjandrum's quite right - it's nothing to do with the term "percent" and everything to do with the nature of the word " population ". Like police, family, government, etc. etc. it can be considered as singular OR plural depending on the circumstances and one's own viewpoint. Hence my #5, bullet point 3. G Glenfarclas Senior Member Chicago

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 767 views View upvotes Kip Wheeler , Knows a bit of grammar Answered 1 year ago · Author has 8.7K answers and 9.3M answer views

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.

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.