From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:53:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Configuring a third-party git hook
Message-ID: <xmqqior7tmbp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140321181532.GC15508@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> [1] Is there a word to mean the "pluralness" of a noun or verb (similar
>     to "tense" for a verb).

I've seen "plural vs singular" often mentioned in the context of
subject and verb agreement.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concord talks about agreement "in gender,
number, person, or case", so "number" may be the word you are
looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_number

> Surely there is, but I could not think of
>     it. I wanted to say here that the pluralness of "what" and "are"
>     does not match (it seems like "what" is a mass noun, which usually
>     matches a singular verb).