Questão de Inglês — Substantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds — IGEDUC 2025
InglêsSubstantivos e compostos | Nouns and compounds
- Código
- qg533094
- Banca
- IGEDUC
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Craíbas - AL
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Superior
- Cargo
- Professor de Inglês
English nouns exhibit complex behaviors regarding countability and number, including uncountable nouns, collective nouns, and nouns that look plural but are singular (and vice-versa). Select the alternative that correctly identifies the grammatical concord and nature of the underlined nouns in the sentence: "The data collected for the study is inconclusive, while the police are investigating the source of the leak."
- A"Data" is treated here as an uncountable/singular mass noun (common in modern usage), and "police" is a pluralia tantum noun requiring a plural verb.
- B"Data" is a countable singular noun; "police" is a singular noun that ends in 's' implicitly.
- C"Data" is strictly a plural noun and the verb "is" is grammatically incorrect; "police" is a collective noun treated as singular.
- D"Data" acts as a collective noun taking a plural verb; "police" acts as an uncountable noun taking a singular verb.