2007-01-13 11:48:30 · 8 answers · asked by ash32b 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
When there is one option it is a choice
If two or more option they are choices
2007-01-13 11:56:23 · answer #1 · answered by Destined2beGreat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you have a noun, you have a plural of that noun, most end in s but some don't , ie sheep; but people to have choices not just a choice, unless, of course, it is restricted to one, as in a choice of fish or meat on a menu.
2007-01-13 12:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason why some people still say fishes. There's an old typists test line which runs, "of all the fishes in the sea, you're the one for me."
Choices is correct in that choice is seen as an offer of two, whereas choices could be a selection from the infinite.
2007-01-13 20:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you have A CHOICE to make, you have one decision to make. It could be picking one item out of a million, it is still a CHOICE as you are picking one singular item.
When you have CHOICES it is not when there are more than 2 to choose from. It is when you have more than one decision to make based on any number of different groups of items.
For example, you walk into a shop to buy a chocolate bar, and are faced with 50 different options. You have A CHOICE to decide which one you will purchase.
This is one choice because you have one decision to make - which chocolate bar do you want?
2007-01-13 21:19:29 · answer #4 · answered by ashypoo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a good question. It probably came about through popular misuse. You really only have to make one "choice" no matter how many "options" you have to choose from.
Of course you could have decisions to make regarding more than one question, and then you would have "choices."
Anyway, language changes a lot depending on how people use it. For example, the original plural for "cow" was "kine," but enough people incorrectly said "cows" until that became the accepted plural form.
2007-01-13 12:40:55 · answer #5 · answered by wiscoteach 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have a choice of 2. (Take it/leave it etc)
More than that, you have choices to make.
2007-01-13 12:05:38 · answer #6 · answered by Froggy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what is your question exactly? choice is a noun
2007-01-13 11:52:00 · answer #7 · answered by Celia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This reminds me of how often we hear of peoples hobbys, look in the dictionary and you can only have one hobby, not several. Even George Bush knows this.
2007-01-16 20:31:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋