Which Is Correct Couple or Couples?

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adj. 1 possessing beauty; aesthetically pleasing. 2 highly enjoyable; very pleasant.

Are a couple of or is a couple of?

It doesn’t matter whether you mean literally a couple, i.e. just two people or things, or you use “a couple of” synonymously to “a few”; it represents a plural idea, so the correct form is: correct There were just a couple of people at the party. wrong There was just a couple of people at the party.

Does couple mean two?

Couple is now understood primarily to refer to two when used as a bare noun (“they make a nice couple”), but is often used to refer to a small indeterminate of two or more when used in the phrase a couple of (“I had a couple of cups of coffee and now I can’t sleep.”).

Is a few more than a couple?

A couple is usually two (a married couple), or sometimes ‘about two’ if you are being vague (a couple of dozen, a couple of inches). A few is more than a couple, but not as many as several.