DATA is plural. The singular is DATUM.
The foreign plural of "data" is also "data." In English, "data" can be used as both a singular and plural noun.
Datum - singular, data - plural (like in Latin).
The true singular form of data is "datum." However, it's so rarely used, that people just assume that "data" is singular form.
The singular form for the noun data is datum."Datum" is so rare now in English that people assume "data" has no singular form. Many Americans use "data" as a singular and some have even gone so far as to invent "datums" as a new plural.
The words was and were are not singular or plural, BUT... WAS is used after a singular noun, and WERE is used after a plural noun. Examples: The dog (a singular noun) WAS walking in the park today. The dogs (a plural noun) WERE walking in the park today. A helpful saying to remember; He WAS, they WERE.
No, the noun 'data' is the plural form of the singular noun 'datum'.The noun 'data' is not a collective noun.A collective noun is a word used to group people or things in a descriptive way.Examples of collective noun for data are a collection of data, a flow of data, a range of data, etc.
No, it is a noun (plural of datum, now almost exclusively used as a singular mass noun).But it is widely used with nouns as an adjunct, e.g. data processing, data stream, data mining.
The word name is a singular noun; the plural form is names.
The plural noun is insignia.The singular noun is insigne.
No, it is a simple singular noun - neither plural nor possessive.
It is used sometimes in the singular and sometimes as a plural.
No, the noun person is singular; the plural form is persons, or the irregular plural people.