2022年9月29日 · The majority of cars on the street are white. The plural is used because "most" means the a countable number of cars, all of which are white. The majority of cars run on gasoline. The plural is used because "most" indicates a countable number of cars. And here are some valid examples of using the singular: The majority of the pie is burnt.

The majority of the students are expected to vote in the class election. This sentence seemed not very natural to me, but it is probably okay. It uses the definite article before "majority of the students", as if referring to a known group. But in reality it likely refers to the concept of majority (superiority in numbers).

2022年9月29日 · Traditionally, 'majority' is only used with countable nouns (cars, people etc), whereas you could use 'most' for non-countable nouns (eg "most of the water spilt"). However, like the historic difference between 'fewer' and 'less', the rules are not always strictly obeyed in everyday speech and even in less formal written English.

2022年9月29日 · The majority as a whole cannot have "a mustache". Each individual does or does not have a mustache. So "The" or "A" majority of men do not have a mustache. Or "The" or "A" majority of men do not have mustaches. One would use the singular only when talking about the majority itself rather than the members of that majority.

2020年9月20日 · The majority of the employees have university degrees. A large majority of people approve of the death sentence. The majority of young professionals in the capital have moved there from provincial towns. In the past, the majority of women were consigned to a lifetime of servitude and poverty. But the following example is also given:

2019年3月29日 · "Vast" and "great", as well as other words like "huge" and "overwhelming", are intensifiers, emphasising the size of the majority. In 1000 people, 501 are a majority, but only by two people. (We can call this a "slim majority".) 600 or 700 people is a …

2022年2月26日 · The word "majority" is modifying the word "Ukrainian". The word "Ukrainian" here would seem to pass the tests for being an adjective (Eg you could modify it for degree - How Ukrainian was Donbas? It was quite Ukrainian. It was more Ukrainian than Sussex.) An adverb is a catchall category that includes modifiers of verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

2022年10月6日 · The majority of students in the class are between 30 and 35. What about the second pie chart? In the second pie chart the largest portion is less than 50%. Can I still consider the group "c" as majority in it? Based on the Cambridge Dictionary it seems ambiguous:(1) the larger number or part of something, (2) more than half of a total number or ...

2018年6月5日 · Although "by majority vote" is commonly heard, I have also heard "by a majority vote". Further, sometimes the word 'majority' is left out altogether, as it is simply assumed that the majority vote will be the winner. In this case you may hear: We will decide between the two options by a vote. or. We will vote to decide between the two options.

2018年1月4日 · "A majority" would normally indicate a single collective group, hence, requiring the singular verb. While the choice is quite subjective, in your example, I would use the plural verb "recommend" since the intent seems to be to stress on multiple sources of the recommendation.