FAQ in Grammar - Data or Datum?
Data or Datum?
In much informal writing, data is considered a collective singular noun. In formal scientific and scholarly writing, however, data is generally used as a plural, with datum as the singular form.
Base your decision on whether your readers should consider the data as a single collection or as a group of individual facts.
Whatever you decide, be sure that your pronouns and verbs agree in number with the selected usage. |
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