Some manone, as opposed to none; Some menan indefinite number or part; All menthe whole taken plurally; No mennone of the sex; No mannever one of the race.

But these, and many similar words, may be taken plurally without the s, because a collective noun is the name of many individuals together.

27.Of the last class of words above cited, some may assume an additional es, when taken plurally; as, summonses, gallowses, chintses: the rest either want the plural, or have it seldom and without change of form.

Here sex, and the pronoun which follows, are masculine; because, the male sex, as well as the female, is here spoken of plurally. OBS.

In support of this construction, it would be easy to adduce a great multitude of examples from the most reputable writers; but still, as it seems not very consistent, to take any word plurally after restricting it to the singular, we ought rather to avoid this if we can, and prefer words that literally agree in number: as, "Of adverbs there are very many ending in ly""More than one of them are sometimes felt at the same instant."

For, "as follows," refers to what the arguments were,to the things themselves, considered plurally, and immediately to be exhibited; wherefore the expression ought rather to have been, "as follow," or, "as they here follow."

Which are the most apt to be taken plurally, collections of persons, or collections of things?

of things, which most often taken plurally, when not plur.

Briefly it is this, that nothing real is absolutely simple, that every smallest bit of experience is a multum in parvo plurally related, that each relation is one aspect, character, or function, way of its being taken, or way of its taking something else; and that a bit of reality when actively engaged in one of these relations is not by that very fact engaged in all the other relations simultaneously.