![]() ![]() ![]() Historically, kind is an unchanged or unmarked plural noun like deer, folk, sheep, and swine, and the construction these kind of is an old one, occurring in the writings of Shakespeare, Swift, Jane Austen, and, in modern times, Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill. The phrase these (or those ) kind of, followed by a plural noun ( these kind of flowers those kind of shoes ) is frequently condemned as ungrammatical because it is said to combine a plural demonstrative ( these those ) with a singular noun, kind. ![]()
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