Re: Missing Singulars (was: Reindeer domestication : two origins)

From: G&P
Message: 62154
Date: 2008-12-19

>As far as formal grammar is concerned, _cattle_ has no singular.

 

Is it perhaps better to say that “cattle” is a mass noun like “sand”, rather than saying it has no singular?

 

Peter

 


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