Example sentences for: plurals

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

  • 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.

  • Only among the few people who pronounce the English plurals with [s] are these words derived from the plurals used in Spanish or Yiddish.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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