Example sentences for: plural

How can you use “plural” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As readers of these occasional notes on English are well aware, British standard usage now condones the use of the indicative where the subjunctive formerly reigned and, to mention just one other obvious phenomenon, the use of the plural pronouns of reference for what have traditionally been regarded as singular referents (as in Everyone should bring their book to class tomorrow ).

  • Mediums would have made sense, but usage dictated the plural media.

  • But its plural form duendes also signified `household gods,' like the Roman Lares and Penates, and took on even broader, pantheistic overtones in duendes de las montañas y de las cuevas `spirits of the mountains and caves.

  • But there are times when the noun seems to cry out for a plural verb:

  • My explanation is that English-speakers borrowed Spanish plural tamales (whose singular is tamal ), from which they back-formed a new singular, tamale (i.e.


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