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Is "prose" plural or collective?

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danielsomers
 
Reply Thu 25 Jan, 2018 10:17 am
I am unsure of how to make this sentence work: "If your prose need(s) work, I can make them (it) sing." I think it should be treated as plural but not sure. Thanks!
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Reply Thu 25 Jan, 2018 10:22 am
If your prose needs work, I can make it sing.

Prrose is a non-countable (collective/mass) noun.

Oxford Dictionaries:
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prose
NOUN
mass noun

1Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

‘a short story in prose’

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