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Can Research Be Plural?

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Can Research Be Plural?

Unlike data, research should always be used as a mass noun

mass noun
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, or non-count noun is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements. ... Mass nouns have no concept of singular and plural, although in English they take singular verb forms.
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, and its verb must be singular. Some writers attempt to force research to take a plural form (researches); however, this usage is incredibly rare, and it will almost certainly trouble a reviewer.

Can you say researches?

In American English, "Researches are going on" is grammatically incorrect. As a noun, "research" is not countable. If Americans want to talk about more than one research project, they talk about "research projects", not "researches". As a verb, "research" is conjugated the usual way.

How do you say multiple research?

"Research" by itself is an uncountable noun, however, according to this, "researches", as a plural noun, is also acceptable, and it should be treated as "research".

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