Plural of the word "status"

[j_meable]

Jacqueny 16 - The "expenses" are plural therefore you should put "are"

[Twiliath]

No, no, no.
"status of the expenses" - the word "expenses" is the predicate nominative of "status." It is not the subject of the sentence.
The word "status" is the subject of the sentence. Therefore, the verb to use is "is." As in, the "status ... is".

[Tdol]

Originally Posted by j_meable

Hope that helps.

I'm afraid it doesn't help because your rules are all wrong. You make plurals by adding -s to most words and not just those ending with -e or -h. And the stuff about the apostrophe is wrong. I also agree with Twiliath that the verb should agree with ''status' not 'expenses' in your other answer.

[donperry1]

In software database design, we follow a convention where each entity is pluralized

eg, a table about customer would be "customers"

..now, i have a table about marital status. That is what brought me to this site. VERY INTERESTING, i learned alot.

I named my table Marital_states...now i'll call it Marital_status

thank you all

[philo2009]

Originally Posted by BobK

The Fourth Declension; the Latin plural is status (with a long U). I wish people wouldn't fool around with Latin endings when they don't know what they're doing.

The only admissible English plural for "status" is "statuses". If people aren't happy with that, they need to paraphrase.

b

Complete agreement! 'Status' - however you may pronounce the 'u' - is clearly useless as a plural, and 'stati' has no basis in Latin.