Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is lesson 286. The title of today's lesson
is use a singular noun after an 'entire' or 'whole.
Use a plural noun after 'all.' Yeah. I definitely come across this one in
writing class. A lot of students of ESL you know, English as a second language. I
guess for some reason, they feel that 'entire' implies a plural because it's
entire. They think that means it's, it's more than one. So a lot of times, when
they say entire , they will follow it with a plural noun.
No. 'Entire' and 'whole' both should be followed by a singular noun, and we use
'all' of course, then a plural noun follows 'all.' So let's take a look at some
examples here of where the student would usually make the mistake. All right. So of
course here with the X. This is wrong. The entire groups decided to cancel the
project. Of course your entire must follow a singular. So the entire group,
the whole group, the entire group decided to cancel the project. Yes. So you
definitely do not use a plural in this sense. All right. Let's look at the second
example. The whole teams were late. No. Of course not. If you say the whole with
the check here. This is correct. You have to say the whole team. Yeah, so again,
Remember entire and whole looks at you know one body or one group as a singular
thing. So the whole team was late. That would be correct. And then of course we
just have one example with 'all.' All the members of the team were late. So all
going with follows with members in the plural. Okay. I hope it's clear. I hope you
got it. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.