Per Should we prefer plural in tags?, for consistency with EL&U and other StackExchange sites, I believe the consensus was to use plural tag names for countables. In practice, we have something of a mishmash of singular and plural forms, particularly for terminology related to punctuation, sentence components, word forms, and parts of speech. In fact, we have both part-of-speech (21 questions) and parts-of-speech (6).
I propose we make parts-of-speech the canonical tag, and that we pluralize the following:
For the others, I ask only that we choose a consistently singular or plural form.
Parts of speech
Currently singular
Currently plural
- adverbial-particles
- articles
- adjectives
- adverbs
- auxiliary-verbs
- collective-nouns
- conjunctions
- correlative-conjunctions
- countable-nouns
- irregular-verbs
- modal-verbs
- nouns
- personal-pronouns
- phrasal-verbs
- prepositions
- pronouns
- proper-nouns
- quantifiers
- reflexive-pronouns
- relative-pronouns
- stative-verbs
- transitive-verbs
- uncountable-nouns
Verb forms
Currently singular
Currently plural
Phrases and clauses
Currently singular
Currently plural
- absolute-clauses
- clauses
- free-relative-clauses
- noun-phrases
- relative-clauses
- restrictive-clauses
- subordinate-clauses
Punctuation marks
Currently singular
- hyphen
- parenthesis (yes, I checked, they're about parentheses, not parenthesis, unlike the better-curated ellipsis)
Currently plural
