Words similar to singulars
Example sentences for: singulars
How can you use “singulars” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Although English tamales , frijoles , and blintses , as now usually pronounced, appear to be derived from Spanish tamales , Spanish frijoles , and Yiddish blintses , they are actually innovations, formed in English by the addition of English -s (in the first two cases) or -es (in the third) to the innovative English singulars.
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).