Singular form for “Criteria”
August 20th, 2008 by juicyfruit
Did you know that the word “Criteria” is plural?
The correct singular form for “criteria” is criterion.
Plural usage: In order to become a member of this club, you must first meet it’s criteria before you are considered.
Singular usage: In order to become a member of this club, you must first meet it’s only criterion before you are considered.
People often use it incorrectly: In order to become a member of this club, you must first meet it’s only criteria before you are considered.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:00 am
OK let me get this straight, here you are lecturing us on correct English and yet you repeatedly use “it’s” when THE CORRECT ENGLISH is “its” in this case. “It’s” is a contraction for “it is” and NOT A possessive. You can make this stuff up…
Plural usage: In order to become a member of this club, you must first meet it’s criteria before you are considered.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Tony,
Thanks for the correction. I wasn’t “lecturing” everyone on correct English. That word came up in a conversation and someone corrected the person so I thought I’d post it up. No offense to anyone with perfect English grammar.