“The bacteria is harmless.”
Grammar Entry 595 / 1605 60-second read
Bacteria is vs. Bacteria are
Plural of bacterium.
The comparisoni
“The bacteria are harmless.”
The ruleii
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BACTERIA is plural.
BACTERIA is plural of BACTERIUM. Use ARE. In casual speech, IS is drifting in, but ARE is still standard.
Memory aidiii
Remember it like this
One bacterium, many bacteria.