Re[2]: [tied] Missing Singulars (was: Reindeer domestication : two o

At 2:57:56 AM on Friday, December 19, 2008, G&P wrote:

>>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?

Unlike 'sand', 'milk', etc., it takes a plural verb: 'the
cattle are in the barn'.

Brian