19 июл. 2022 г. · Data is plural. Datum is the singular. But it gets paired with singular or plural verbs depending on how you use it, as a unit or not.

23 мая 2024 г. · "Data" is technically a plural noun, with the singular form being "datum." However, in common usage, "data" is often treated as a singular noun, ...

24 апр. 2013 г. · I've encountered this issue a lot. Here are my observations: TL;DR - By convention, scientific/scholarly writing use "data" as a plural noun.

5 дек. 2017 г. · I understand that the word "data" is plural for "datum", but I've always used it in the former sense as I thought that "data" was used as a "singular group".

23 сент. 2021 г. · 'Data' is a skunked term, in transition from one form to another. Technically, 'data' is the plural of 'datum,' so there's a prescriptivist case ...

24 окт. 2018 г. · If you are writing an academic paper in which "data" is clearly the plural of "datum", then maybe you can say "the data are". If your academic ...

28 окт. 2020 г. · “Like strata, phenomena, and media, data is a plural and is best used with plural verbs.” Underneath it has two sentences: “The data is misleading.” and “These ...

19 сент. 2024 г. · The word "data" is singular. It's one word. Speaking of any single word is singular.

8 янв. 2023 г. · Depending on the situation, the plural might be "data" or "datums ... Using the plural version "data are" is using data as the plural of datum.

29 янв. 2015 г. · You are fluent in two different registers, one academic and one normal. In the first, data is plural, in the latter it's singular.