English plurals are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For...

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...

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...

plurals such as Kind-er. Breeches is an example involving an old plural that did not use a suffix. It was formerly breech which came from Old English...

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)...

words having English plurals in -eis: poleis, necropoleis, and acropoleis (though acropolises is by far the most common English plural). Most learned...

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...

(plural: tamales). Tamal comes from the Nahuatl tamalli. The English "tamale" is a back-formation from tamales, with English speakers applying English...

Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and...

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)...

similarly refers to the "genitive inflection with regular and irregular plurals", but later – especially with regard to the "group genitive" – revises...

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...

inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only four forms: an inflected...

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...

of the noun; due to the similarity to regular English plurals this form was ultimately used as the plural while 'skate' was derived for use as singular...

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...

examples of various English plural forms, dating back to a c. 1515 use of "galloglasseis". The OED states that the conventional English plural, gallo(w)glasses...

Writing portal Contents portal Classifier (linguistics) Defective verb English plurals Mass noun Singulative number Synesis Wiktionary lists of pluralia tantum...

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...

modern English. Middle English personal pronouns were mostly developed from those of Old English, with the exception of the third person plural, a borrowing...

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...

legislative acts the plural forms of euro and cent are spelled without the s, notwithstanding normal English usage. Otherwise, normal English plurals are used, with...

modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el (pronounced /ˈɛl/ EL), plural els...

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...

also in English, but this is now rare. In English, the plural of curriculum alone is often curriculums instead of the traditional Latin plural curricula...

instances Greengrocers' apostrophes, a non-standard manner to form noun plurals 's, a contraction of the old Dutch genitive article des, appearing in names...

irregular plural nouns in English, and why they surface in the lexicon can be explained using a nanosyntactic approach. For example, the plural of mouse...

of English homographs The Chaos – a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité demonstrating the irregularities of English spelling Conventions English plural I before...

An uncertain plural occurs when a writer does not know in advance whether a word should be written in the singular or plural. For English nouns, this may...

(singular or plural) of the logical subject (complement), hence it takes a plural verb if the complement is plural. In informal English, however, the...