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.


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