Majotiry - sg or pl? when?

[Svetlana_ns]

Majotiry - singular or plural? when?
заранее спасибо!

[murti]

контекст приведите!
лучше конкретно на примере

[Slava]

Мой справочник говорит, что THE majority (то же самое, что "most" и "most of") как правило, употребляется с глаголом во множественном числе. Это логично :-)

[Svtelana_ns]

Спасибо за ответы!
в словаре есть с the и с a
это слово встречается несколько раз по тексту.
Вот такой пример:
majority of people, who drink (s?) this juice is (are?) happy about it/

[Bang]

The majority IS against
The majority of students ARE against

[Bang]

В Вашем случае - DRINK,ARE

[V]

ВСЮ фразу дайте

все зависит от текста

[серёга]

В, а что, Бэнг неправильно разве ответил?

[V]

верно, Серега,
просто могут быть еще и другие контексты

[серёга]

окак!)

[V]

дык, бл
:)

[Тruth Seeker]

Usage Note: When majority refers to a particular number of votes, it takes a singular verb: Her majority was five votes. His majority has been growing by 5 percent every year. When it refers to a group of persons or things that are in the majority, it may take either a singular or plural verb, depending on whether the group is considered as a whole or as a set of people considered individually. So we say The majority elects (not elect) the candidate it wants (not they want), since the election is accomplished by the group as a whole; but The majority of the voters live (not lives) in the city, since living in the city is something that each voter does individually. ·Majority is often preceded by great (but not by greater) in expressing emphatically the sense of “most of”: The great majority approved. The phrase greater majority is appropriate only when considering two majorities: He won by a greater majority in this election than in the last.
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