Example sentences for: plurals

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

  • In British English it is no longer considered a solecism to use the plurals they, their, them, theirs as a generalized pronoun for words like eyeryone, everybody, anyone, anybody , etc.

  • 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.

  • This is proven by the fact that the English plurals are pronounced with [z] and not, as in the case of the Spanish and Yiddish plurals, with [s].

  • It might impress him to hear the child regularize our odd plurals, with mans and gooses and lifes , a sub-rule which he has to swallow willy-nilly.

  • They have trouble creating the plurals of words and forming verbs in the past tense--things most 4-year-olds can easily manage.


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