is few plural or singular?

Answer 1

plural

Answer 2

its plural.



Number is a feature of nouns, verbs and pronouns. In present-day English it consists of two categories: singular and plural. Singular nouns and pronouns: car; I; it generally take a singular verb, plural nouns and pronouns: cars; we; they generally take a plural verb.

In practice there is little difference between singular and plural in English verbs. In the past tense they are identical. In the present tense, the only difference is that the third person singular usually has an s on the end, whereas the plural and the first and second person singular do not: I come, he comes, they come. Exceptions to this are the modal or auxiiliary verbs, such as: can, may, will, which do not have an s in the third person singular she can; and the verb to be, which has distinctive forms in the first and third person singular in both the present and the past tenses.

Some singular nouns which refer to groups of people or animals can take a plural verb. To find out more about this, see collective noun.

It can often happen that another noun or pronoun comes between the verb and its grammatical subject. If this is different in number from the subject, it can affect the number of the verb: The contents of the book submitted to our legal department has raised a few eyebrows. The subject of the verb here is contents, not book or department, so the verb should be plural: have, not singular: has.

Nouns and pronouns linked by and can take a plural or a singular verb. To find out more about this, see compound subject.

Measurements of quantity, distance, etc, that contain a plural noun can be regarded as a single unit, and therefore take a singular verb: Fifty pounds is too much to pay; Twenty miles is a long way to walk.

There are some nouns ending in -s that take a singular verb: The news is good. They include the names of certain games: Darts is my favourite game and the names of certain diseases: Mumps is unpleasant for adult males to catch. Some nouns ending in -s take a singular verb when they denote an area of study: Acoustics is a tricky subject but a plural verb when they have another meaning: The acoustics of the hall aren't very good.
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(used with a pl. verb) 1. An indefinitely small number of persons or things: A few of the books have torn jackets. 2. An exclusive or limited number: the discerning few; the fortunate few.
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Answer 3

Is Few Singular Or Plural

Answer 4

It depends on the meaning of few. If it is used as a noun then its singular. Few seems to be plural because the meaning of it includes more than one thing, but it is indeed singular (as a noun).
Here are meanings of few:
- an indefinite but relatively small number; "they bought a case of beer and drank a few"
- a small elite group; "it was designed for the discriminating few"
- a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number; "a few weeks ago"; "a few more wagons than usual"; "an invalid's pleasures are few and far between"; "few roses were still blooming"; "few women have led troops in battle"

Answer 5

few is both singular and plural! we do say for example:
there was few time= there was a little time
there were few ppl= there were not many ppl
but a few means some and its only plural

Answer 6

In many cases it's an adjective so it's neither plural or singular then (e.g. Few people like her).

Sometimes it's a singular pronoun (I'll take a few).

Answer 7

I think it depends on the context.
Eg "A few of us are going to the pub" - few is plural here as more than one are going out.

but

Eg " A few is better than none" - few is singular here as it is the concept of "a few" rather than the actual objects represented by the term.

Answer 8

'Few' is singular. Otherwise you would say 'I have got some fews eggs in the fridge,' which would unarguably be wrong. The fact that it takes the article 'a' before it, means that it is singular as no plural noun can be preceded by 'a'.

Answer 9

As a quantifier, few is used with countable nouns, as opposed to little, which is used with uncountable nouns. A few has a positive meaning, whereas few is more negative.
Examples: There are a few eggs in the fridge.
Few people came to the meeting.
There's a little water in the bottle.
I have very little time left to do this.

Answer 10

a few is a singular term for A collective group

Answer 11

few is more than single
so it is plural according to me.
can u think of a plural of few.