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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 08 Jul 13 - No Cached

singular or plural verb to match a collective noun such as team or staff? The answer is, “It depends.” If these nouns are acting as a unit, use a singular verb.
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If the sentence indicates more individuality, use a plural verb.
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People is NOT a collective noun like team or staff. It is a plural noun.
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Fractions and percentages, like team and staff, can be either singular or plural depending on the object of the preposition following.
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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 24 Aug 11 - Cached

Think of the keywords as class categories, where each item tagged or belonging has an "is a" relationship to its group. Everything becomes singular, consistent, and clear.
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to consider it an "is in the class of" relationship rather than an "is a" relationship
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Plural is much better in my opinion, but it makes tagging too complicated, because sometimes there is no plural or the plural does not make sense at all. I recommend to use plural for tags where it is possible, because it makes more sense to the reader.
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In object-oriented design, classes used to have singular names
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so often Delicous suggests me singular names
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In 20 years from now, when even a $100 PC has a Natural Language Co-Processor inside, you won't have this issue. For now, the systems you are interacting with have constraints. The advantage of the style I proposed is its simplicity.
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using singular tag names because, as another poster stated, it is a simple and consistent system that requires the least amount of mental processing (whenever I clip a web page I don't want to have to sit and think about my tagging nomenclature). The one trade-off is that it is not always "natural language", but this is a fair trade-off for me.
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singular tag names can also sound more natural in certain situations.
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idea that cheers me to use singular form is English grammar for adjective
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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 08 Jul 13 - No Cached

Be aware: phrases such as "in addition to," "as well as," and "along with" do not mean the same thing as "and." When inserted between the subject and the verb, these phrases do not change the number of the subject.
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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 08 Jul 13 - No Cached

if you use a connecting phrase other than the exact word “and,” the subjects do not add up.
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The words “both” and “and” form a team, known as a correlative conjunction, and “both” cannot be used with other phrases.
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Some phrases containing the word “and” actually describe a singular thing
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also many proper nouns and job titles contain the word “and” but name a singular thing
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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached

Another reason for plural tags is that a tag lists questions about design patterns, not design pattern.
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shared by Vipas Suktavornprasit on 06 Nov 14 - No Cached

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