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Example sentences for: plural
How can you use “plural” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
But the plural has come into full flower only during the middle years of this century.
One respondent mentions "y'all," an excellent example--English used to make a distinction between singular "thou" and plural "you," but now only Southern varieties of English are capable of this distinction without resorting to circumlocutions.
Here, the answer should have touched on the fact that in some cases a plural like fishes , as distinct from the plural fish , sreves to identify the existence of a number of varieties.
The use of the double plural is another old Sussex feature, as in the verse,
That is, since Spanish or Yiddish [s] > English [z] would be phonologically unlikely here, -s and -es in the English plurals are the native English plural allomorphs rather than Spanish- or Yiddish-origin allomorphs.