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Example sentences for: plurals

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It is used to describe compounds composed of an adjective and a substantive so as to form, principally, a possessive adjective, like bahuvrihi itself; it also forms a compound that is different grammatically from its head member and, particularly, plurals that function as singular nouns, as in lazy-bones, sly-boots .
At the same time, perhaps from an unconscious discomfort caused by so many perplexing plurals, there has been a mini-trend in the opposite direction.
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.
After the new singulars emerged in English, new plurals were formed.
In general, back-formation of new singulars from plurals is a sign that the plural is textually more frequent than the singular (indeed, the Oxford English Dictionary lists only frijoles and no singular form whatsoever for English).