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.
Grammar codes. Nouns. [C] countable nouns that are used with a or an or a number and have a plural: car, soldier. [U] uncountable nouns that cannot be used with a or an or a number and have no plural: happiness, pasta. [singular] nouns that are used with a, an, or the but are never used in the plural: babble, halt. [plural] nouns that are used only in the plural and always take a plural verb: cattle, surroundings. [often plural][usually plural] nouns that can be used in the singular but are often or usually plural: boundary, fee. Verbs. [I] intransitive verbs that have no direct object: He paused for a moment.