daft question

hi,
a question to get the brain cells working

is 'crowd' plural or singular ?

 

I would say plural.

But you can have "a crowd of one" - a bit like sheep.

 

Simple!

A crowd...............Singular

Several crowds......Plural

God you Mancs!

 

What about.... "Say hello to the crowd!"

That can mean the crowd as in a lot of people. Also, "There was a bit crowd outside"

Ha!

 

If crowd was plural.. there would be no crowds..

 

he he
if crowds is the plural of crowd then isn't that also a crowd

 

nah.. tis' multiples of the singular

 

there you go Meit, fanning the flames of fire....wobbles

 

Oh how I try..

 

Shucks and here I am thinking the plural of "Crowd" is "meeses" you know like more than one mouse..................Dang now where oh where did I put that Doctoral Degree

 

No Huey actually mine came with some Baseball Cards and some "DoubleBubble Gum".mmmmmmmmmmmmmmDoubleBubble Gum

 

Obviously, the word crowd is singular in any case because crowd only refers to a group of people, so its one group of people, therefore making it singular.
I dont think saying "crowds of people" makes sense.
So its always singular.
Now you learned something new.

 

Yep, as other words, such as flock (of sheep); pack (of wolves); school (of fish). Of course, there may be more than one of said crowd, flock, pack, school. You can "crowd things together", as in group.

 

Except that is what you say.
"There were crowds of people at the place", which indicates more than one crowd. So how many people are allowed in a crowd before they become two crowds? This needs to be determined in order to pluralize crowd.

 

Can we say poetato - potato???

From the American Dictionary:

Crowd a noun 1. a large gathering of people 2. spectators; audience 3. colloq. a particular set of people - v

Therefore crowd is singular implying many people.

As for the sentence using crowds the dictionary has no reference to the plural, but the grammar check in word.doc see it in plural as correct.

There can be several smaller crowds but I personnaly prefer the crowd seemed to be split into smaller groups.

Then again it is possible that crowds gathered in several cities.

So maybe your question should be how much distance between any large gathering of people make it crowds and what impression on how you use the word will you leave someone else with?

 

LOLThe most important to remember is the plural of dice is dice and hit anyone who smart ass says di

 

"Crowd" is a singular plural. The word itself is singular (as in, a crowd) but it refers to a plural of another noun (i.e. a crowd of people). As said before, a flock of sheep is another one.

If you were to use the plural of crowd, you would be referring to a number of groups of people. For example at a football match you may have crowds, since there are many seperate groups of people who support each team.

 

This Crowds , crowded crowd is crowdy!

Is it just me..If you look at the word CROWD long enough, it seems to not even work as an english word. Jeez, now its buggin me!

 

That happens with any word. Try thinking about the word "pottery" for a while. Eventually you realise that it makes absolutely no sense.