Query about omitting and the singular and plural forms of nouns.
1a. If he is the murderer, I think him, we have done no more than is just.(original)
1b. If he is the murderer, I think him (to be the murderer), (what we have done (to him) merely is just.
Question: Which is/are grammatically correct?
Do they both have the same meaning?
2a. the collapse of moral certitudes.
2b. the collapse of a moral certitude.
2c. a collapse of a certitude.
2d. the collapses of moral certitudes.
Question: Which is/are grammatically correct?
Do these noun phrases have the same meaning?