Example sentences for: plurals

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

  • The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Another development that worries me is the employment of plurals in an adjectival sense.


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