Business as usual in healthcare is broken and we've got to do something different. Zeigt, dass das Patentsystem in vielen Bereichen seit langem kaputt ist. Shows that the system has been badly broken in many areas for a long time.
Mumps is a plural noun but treated as a singular noun.
Singular and plural of pants, shorts, jeans, etc. up vote 1 down vote favorite. In English, words like pants, shorts, and jeans appear to be in the plural but really refer to one item of clothing (I don't know what the technical term for it is).ther types of pants are specified using adjectives: shorts will be pantalones cortos and jeans pantalones vaqueros (also valid in their singular forms). As in English, you can use the plural form to refer to one item, and you can also use the singular form.