Analysis vs. Analyses
Analysis and analyses are often confused, but they are not interchangeable. Let's take a few moments to carefully analyze these two words so that you will be sure to use them correctly in your speaking and writing.
Analysis is a noun that refers to a detailed examination or study of something or someone. If you think about the verb analyze-meaning to examine methodically-the noun analysis makes sense.
1. Jeffrey had completed his analysis of the data for his research project.
2. The doctor returned to the room so he could discuss his analysis of the test results.
3. Do you think the government's analysis of the economic conditions is correct?
4. For this project, I must complete an analysis of the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Analyses is the plural form of analysis. When you refer to more than one analysis, you use the plural: analyses.
1. After three different scientists completed analyses of the data, the results of the study were ready to be published.
2. The x-ray technician and the doctor completed separate analyses of the x-ray images before the patient was told his bone was not broken.
3. There are several different analyses of current economic conditions and none of them seem to agree.
4. To complete her degree, Julie spent many hours completing analyses of her own data as well as that of her professor, as they worked to study the same bacteria.
As you can see, analysis and analyses refer to the same thing, but analyses is the plural form of the word.
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