English plurals are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For...
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plurals most typically denote two or more of something, although they may also denote fractional, zero or negative amounts. An example of a plural is...
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have plurals opera and corpora, and fourth declension masculine and feminine nouns such as sinus and tribus have plurals sinūs and tribūs. Some English words...
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just an apostrophe (with no change in pronunciation) in the case of -[e]s plurals (the dogs' owners) and sometimes other words ending with -s (Jesus' love)...
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Plurale tantum (redirect from Plural noun)
Writing portal Contents portal Classifier (linguistics) Defective verb English plurals Mass noun Singulative number Synesis Wiktionary lists of pluralia tantum...
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words having English plurals in -eis: poleis, necropoleis, and acropoleis (though acropolises is by far the most common English plural). Most learned...
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Inflection (redirect from Irregular plurals)
inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only four forms: an inflected...
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similarly refers to the "genitive inflection with regular and irregular plurals", but later – especially with regard to the "group genitive" – revises...
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which was the plural of broc. Look up double plural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nordquist, Richard. "Double Plurals in English". ThoughtCo. Retrieved...
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masculine and neuter genitive ending -es. The modern English plural ending -(e)s derives from the Old English -as, but the latter applied only to "strong" masculine...
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Allomorph (section In English)
assimilation to the voicing of the preceding consonant. Similarly, English plural morphemes exhibit three allomorphs: [-s], [-z], and [-əz], with pronunciation...
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second-person singular and all three plurals. The only verb past participle is been and its gerund-participle is being. English has two primary tenses, past (preterite)...
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instances Greengrocers' apostrophes, a non-standard manner to form noun plurals 's, a contraction of the old Dutch genitive article des, appearing in names...
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of English homographs The Chaos – a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité demonstrating the irregularities of English spelling Conventions English plural I before...
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railroading). The spellings listed below are from the Oxford English Dictionary. Plurals of consonant names are formed by adding -s (e.g., bees, efs or...
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Poverty of the stimulus (section English plural marker)
morphophonological rule governing the English plural produces forms that are consistent with two grammars. In one grammar, the plural is pronounced as [s] if it...
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California English (or Californian English) is the collection of English dialects native to California, largely classified under Western American English. Most...
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Mormonism and polygamy (redirect from Plural Marriage (Mormonism))
Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...
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Grammatical person (redirect from First person plural)
(first-person plural) you are/ye are (second-person plural) they are (third-person plural, and third-person singular) Other verbs in English take the suffix...
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show number distinction in English, they do so differently: common nouns tend to take an inflectional ending (–s) to mark plurals, but pronouns typically...
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Apostrophe (redirect from Apostrophe in English)
the plurals are formed with an s that does not occur at the end: e.g., attorneys-general. A problem therefore arises with the possessive plurals of these...
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S2CID 23458757. Marcus, Gary F. (1995). "Children's overregularization of English plurals: a quantitative analysis*". Journal of Child Language. 22 (2): 447–459...
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z-stem plurals such as ǣġru ("eggs") and ċealfru ("calves"), and the a-stem plurals hēafdu ("heads") and dēoflu ("demons"). Also the plurals of all neuter...
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Y'all (category Second-person plural pronouns in English)
second-person plural pronoun in Southern American English, with which it is most frequently associated, though it also appears in some other English varieties...
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H (category Pages with Old English (ca. 450-1100) IPA)
aitch (pronounced /eɪtʃ/ , plural aitches), or regionally haitch (pronounced /heɪtʃ/, plural haitches). For most English speakers, the name for the letter...
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Singular they (redirect from Gender-neutral third person singular pronoun in English)
more than one member, plural forms are sometimes used.[example needed] The singular they, which uses the same verb form that plurals do, is typically used...
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relationship between given quantities. The plural of formula can be either formulas (from the most common English plural noun form) or, under the influence of...
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modern English. Middle English personal pronouns were mostly developed from those of Old English, with the exception of the third person plural, a borrowing...
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Collective noun (redirect from Collective plurals)
singular form but take a plural verb form are called collective plurals. An example of such a metonymic shift in the plural-to-singular direction is the...
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English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. English...
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