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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.
After the new singulars emerged in English, new plurals were formed.
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].
Whether any name, through local preference, finally came to end in the masculine -o , the feminine -a , or the plurals -i or -e , the root meaning of the name remained the same.