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present number categories of
singular or
plural. Some
languages also have a dual,
trial and
paucal number or
other arrangements. The word "
number" is also...
- The
plural (sometimes
abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the
values of the
grammatical category of
number. The
plural of a noun...
- Dual (abbreviated DU) is a
grammatical number that some
languages use in
addition to
singular and
plural. When a noun or
pronoun appears in dual form...
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meaning of
plural is "more than one", the
grammatical term has a
slightly different technical meaning. In the
English system of
grammatical number, singular...
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cannot be both
singular and
plural,
since these are both
values of the "
number" category. It can, however, be both
plural and feminine,
since these represent...
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plural forms, and
sometimes dual form as well (grammatical
number). Some
other languages use
different classifying systems,
especially in the
plural pronouns...
- In English, the
plural form of
words ending in -us,
especially those derived from Latin,
often replaces -us with -i.
There are many exceptions, some because...
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Polygamy (called
plural marriage by Latter-day
Saints in the 19th
century or the
Principle by
modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...
- In linguistics, a
broken plural (or
internal plural) is an
irregular plural form of a noun or
adjective found in the
Semitic languages and
other Afroasiatic...
-
nominative case and
plural, as in
Latin and German) are
called fusional. In
English most
nouns are
inflected for
number with the
inflectional plural affix -s (as...
