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English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which 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 of pronouns, see English personal pronouns.
Phonological transcriptions provided in this article are for Received Pronunciation and General American. For more information, see English phonology.
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...
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)...
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...
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...
Old English (Englisċ, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and...
(plural: tamales). Tamal comes from the Nahuatl tamalli. The English "tamale" is a back-formation from tamales, with English speakers applying English...
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...
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)...
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...
inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only four forms: an inflected...
of the noun; due to the similarity to regular Englishplurals this form was ultimately used as the plural while 'skate' was derived for use as singular...
examples of various Englishplural forms, dating back to a c. 1515 use of "galloglasseis". The OED states that the conventional Englishplural, gallo(w)glasses...
modern English. Middle English personal pronouns were mostly developed from those of Old English, with the exception of the third person plural, a borrowing...
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...
relationship between given quantities. The plural of formula can be either formulas (from the most common Englishplural noun form) or, under the influence of...
legislative acts the plural forms of euro and cent are spelled without the s, notwithstanding normal English usage. Otherwise, normal Englishplurals are used, with...
modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is cee (pronounced /ˈsiː/), plural cees...
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...
show number distinction in English, they do so differently: common nouns tend to take an inflectional ending (–s) to mark plurals, but pronouns typically...
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...
of English homographs The Chaos – a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité demonstrating the irregularities of English spelling Conventions Englishplural I before...
morphophonological rule governing the Englishplural produces forms that are consistent with two grammars. In one grammar, the plural is pronounced as [s] if it...
modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is el (pronounced /ˈɛl/ EL), plural els...
In Islam, a houri (Englishplural houris, /ˈhʊəriz/; from Arabic: حُـورِيَّـة ,حُورِيّ, romanized: ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya), is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes...
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