Jan 16, 2018 · Because plural crowds do not require the definite article, whereas singular crowd does require the definite article. Use the when you assume there is just one of something in …

Dec 24, 2018 · What is the difference between "crowd" and "crowding"? In the following sentence can we use both of them in place of each other? By building a branch campus, some of the …

May 16, 2019 · Ten people in a small room is a crowd. Ten people in a large car park is not a crowd. There's an expression "Two's company, three's a crowd", which means if two people …

Jun 16, 2019 · Yes, absolutely – sentences like "the two armies met on the field of battle" or "crowds of protesters surged into the street" are quite common.

Jul 14, 2020 · "The crowd is waving its arms" would be grammatically correct, though it sounds a little awkward. And saying just "The crowd is waving" would leave it ambiguous what the …

Can collective nouns be plural? For example, can I say armies instead of army if I'm talking about different types of armies, or crowds. crowd and army are already plural but can I add an s after ...

Jun 1, 2018 · People were standing around in a crowd. Or if you just used the word "crowd" alone you would use "was", as the collective noun is singular: A crowd was standing around.

They let their emotion crowd their judgment. Don't let your personal feelings cloud your judgement. I've seen the both expressions. Do they mean the same? Since Stephie asked, …

A "throng" is a dense group or crowd of people. If people are "thronging" to a place, or a place is "thronged" with people, it implies that the place is crowded, that there is little room to move. …

Do you say “not crowd” or “not crowded”? I know @rosslh tried to “fix” it in your question, but it is important for us to understand what you already know so we can write answers that are useful …

Jan 16, 2016 · "Crowds swelled by the thousands" means that the size of the crowd increased by thousands of people. The word by is used to compare the size of the crowd before-versus …

Jan 19, 2021 · It means he would have done something extremely successfully if he knew this particular crowd would be there, around him, or watching him. You can say. That comedian …

Feb 10, 2015 · It depends on if you are using British English or American English. British English, as far as I understand it, considers a noun-for-a-group-of-individuals to be plural.American …

Sep 6, 2020 · There is certainly room for disagreement. I think that both are valid, depending on whether you are envisage incomes as plural units or average income in the sense of total. …

The crowd demonstrated outside the theatre. This sentence has no direct object. "outside the theatre" is a prepositional phrase used as an adverb on "demonstrated" telling where. In this …

Mar 8, 2017 · If a team scores a goal, the crowd of the winning team will go nuts (they are jumping up and down and celebrating), while the crowd of the losing team will go nuts (they are angry, …

Nov 6, 2021 · "Broke up" is different than the other 2 words. It focuses on the initial splitting up of the crowd, but the other 2 words focus on the spreading out of the crowd.

Aug 7, 2017 · "I had never seen a goal like that before" places the entire statement back in 2014 when you saw the goal. "I have never seen a goal like that before" places the entire statement …