I am doing research for three different questions and I am going to present one single thesis statement for each question. Would I refer to all three statements as 'thesis statements' or as 'theses statements'?  Intuitively, I would choose the latter as both the total number of statements and questions are plural. Which one is correct though?
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When should a noun that’s used at­tribu­tively to de­scribe an­other  noun be plu­ral, and when should it be sin­gu­lar?  And when should it be pos­ses­sive, like bak­er’s dozen and when should it be plu­ral pos­ses­sive, like farm­ers’ mar­ket?  In other words, why do we say teach­ers union rather than teacher  union?  And why do we say wed­ding plan­ner rather than wed­dings plan­ner?  Which of these vari­ants is or are cor­rect?        stu­dent union   stu­dents union   stu­den­t’s union   stu­dents’ union      What about com­mu­nity val­ues ver­sus com­mu­ni­ty’s val­ues?  Please note I am look­ing for a gen­eral rule or at least some tips.  These are only ex­am­ples.  Up­date: It seems even na­tive speak­ers fol­low their per­sonal  style to write such com­pound words. I won­der why in the IELTS lis­ten­ing sec­tion, the lan­guage learner has to write a spe­ci­fic form and there is no rule for this.
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There are different types of problem.   or      There are different types of problems.   I easily get confused when I make such sentence(s). Look, still I am not sure whether I should use sentence or sentences.
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In my cover letter I want to write that I am a graduate student in statistics. But I am not sure about the "in". So what is correct?     I am a graduate student in statistics.      I am a graduate student of statistics.
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I'm trying to find out whether I should use a singular or plural verb when there are multiple gerunds as the subject of the sentence. For example:  Running the correct course and keeping a steady pace are/is necessary in order to win.  With either one of these by itself, &quot;is&quot; would be correct:  Running the correct course is necessary in order to win. Keeping a steady pace is necessary in  order to win.  With both gerunds combined, I can't seem to figure out whether the verb should stay singular since each phrase is singular, or if it should become plural since there are two connected by &quot;and&quot;. If we just treat the gerunds as regular nouns, then obviously it would become &quot;are&quot;, but I'm not sure if gerunds have the exact same rules as regular nouns. I know that if the sentence was:  Running the correct course and keeping a steady pace are both necessary.  That &quot;are&quot; would be correct, but without the &quot;both&quot; it sounds incorrect to me. Does anyone know the official rule here?
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What I write should mean the following: "There is this blog, but I don't remember its name."   So I thought I have to write it this way to achieve the meaning in a short way: "This blog."   But is this correct? Does is mean what I want to say? Because I've learned at school that "this" points to something specific. But I that's not what I want to achieve.   Sorry if the question is unclear. But I have no idea how to explain it differently.
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I am writing a literature review. My question is which sentence is correct?   Most of the existing work focus on... Most of the existing work focuses on ... Most of the existing studies focus on ...   Thanks
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I'm having some issues with a sentence that is part of the purpose in a report that I'm writing. I'm not sure if the word "communicate" (in bold) should be singular or plural.  The applications in the "set" will communicate with each other, not with other "sets".     The purpose of this report is to develop a sample set of applications   that communicates between services on the internet, mobile devices   and a central processing unit in a motor vehicle.
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I often have trouble expressing myself when I want to talk about some things (plural) holistically as a single thing.  For example, "differential equations are a form of expression...".  It doesn't seem right to say that somethings (plural) are a something (singular), but I would like to say something like this if it can be done at all correctly.
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In school we were taught that a subject in singular form required a corresponding verb, for example:     The multitude of insects is astonishing.   multitude is singular, therefore is must be used.  But now I have been told by an experienced (but not native) speaker that a subject with a plural meaning can be used with a verb "in plural form", for example:     The multitude of insects are astonishing.   multitude means plural, therefore are can be used.  Is this just an exception which is not taught to English language learners, or is it informal use, or is this wrong altogether?
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For example, if I wanted to write the equivalent of  There are many automated teller machines in this city.  Would it be  There are many ATMs in this city.  or  There are many ATM's in this city. (could get confused with possessive form or contraction).  or just  There are many ATM in this city. (assuming the final s is included in Machines represented by M).  Maybe something else?
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Here is the documents needed.     Here are the documents needed.       Which is grammatically correct and why? My guess would be the second one because of the plural form.
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I have a question about the following construction and which instance is correct.        Selecting an appropriate study topic(s).   Selecting appropriate study topic(s).      When it is both singular and plural due to the parenthesized optional part, should I use the an because of thinking of what follows as being the singular (that is, study topic)?  Or should I omit the an because of thinking of what of what follows as being in the plural (that is, study topics)?
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I am always confused by these tricky-in my opinion-ones as below.  For example,   People love their life or lives. Girls always love their boyfriend or boyfriends. People think of their college or colleges as an enjoyable place or enjoyable places.   My point is that every time I come across such things, I am not sure about whether an objective or a complement has to be plural, every time the subject is plural. Actually, in the ex1 sentence, I think both of them are what I have seen before. However, the rest 2 sentences are not so sure if I let them be singular. In the ex2, every girl has one boyfriend-IN MOST CASES. Also, in the ex3, everyone attends one college.  In that sense, since the subjects are plural, should the objectives or the compliment be pluralized? Or, is it okay if I leave them single as the ex1 sentence? The problem is, though, if I leave them singular they sound like they have ONE boyfriend to share or they go to the same college. It sounds weird to me. Is it just me or is this incorrect?
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So I'm making this summary of a course where I've only been getting information from one book. Sometimes I want to show what page from the book a statement is taken from but I can't figure out a clean way of doing it.  Basically I would like to have something (in function) similar to:  "Statement[Book p123]"  Do you have any suggestions?
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In my research paper, I have set aside space to define terms (each having a bullet point). My confusion is how I go about defining these terms. Do I quote a dictionary, another research paper in the field, or do I paraphrase either one? , but the author doesn't cite any source. Does this mean the words fall under 'common knowledge'?
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I am submitting a Ph.D. thesis fairly soon and my supervisor has flagged my use of capitalisation in "Section" and "Chapter" as possibly incorrect. I have googled about a bit and I see mixed opinions.  So my question is, when writing a computer science Ph.D. thesis, what is the correct way to capitalise "Section", "Chapter", "Appendix", "Figure", "Table", ... ?  For example, what is the correct capitalisation for the following:   "In Chapter 3, it was shown that..." "In the previous Section, a method was presented to..." "The graph in Figure 3 shows..."
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In math, we use the term series a lot, and there are many types of series.  How should I craft my sentence when I have three different ones in mind to talk about? Should I settle down for a less mortal alternative of “list of series” or something like that?  The existing question on   suggests the usage of series’. But is that all?   If that’s the only solution, then could you please explain the usage of apostrophe symbol at the end?  Is that a plural marker or a possessive marker, or both?