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Mignon Fogarty@grammargirl.bsky.social |
These days, it's common to treat "data" as singular when you're writing for a general audience, but scientists usually still treat it as plural.
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Mignon Fogarty
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I'm not sure what the convention is in legal writing, but Garner's Modern English Usage says "the data is" is fully standard, and he is known for his legal writing expertise (among other things).
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