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  2. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    English plurals include the plural forms of English nouns and English determiners. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plurals are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For plurals of pronouns, see English personal pronouns.

  3. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    dogs (plural, two or more) To mark number, English has different singular and plural forms for nouns and verbs (in the third person): "my dog watches television" (singular) and "my dogs watch television" (plural). [7] This is not universal: Wambaya marks number on nouns but not verbs, [8] and Onondaga marks number on verbs but not nouns. [9]

  4. English possessive - Wikipedia

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    The possessive form of an English noun, or more generally a noun phrase, is made by suffixing a morpheme which is represented orthographically as ' s (the letter s preceded by an apostrophe), and is pronounced in the same way as the regular English plural ending (e)s: namely, as / ɪ z / when following a sibilant sound (/ s /, / z /, / ʃ /, / ʒ /, / tʃ / or / dʒ /), as / s / when following ...

  5. Plural - Wikipedia

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    In English, the most common formation of plural nouns is by adding an -s suffix to the singular noun. (For details and different cases, see English plurals.) Just like in English, noun plurals in French, Spanish, and Portuguese are also typically formed by adding an -s suffix to the lemma form, sometimes combining it with an additional vowel ...

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are Quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...

  7. Donald L. Lucas - Pay Pals - The Huffington Post

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    From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Donald L. Lucas joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 47.8 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Nouns following the lone, unsigned digit 1 (one) are singular, but those following other decimal numbers (i.e. base-10 numbers not involving fractions) are plural (increased 0.7 percentage points; 365.25 days; paid 5 dollars per work hour, 1 dollar per travel hour, 0 dollars per standby hour; increased by 1 point but net change +1 points; net ...

  9. Rafael prompts warnings of life-threatening conditions on ...

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    The country's entire power network collapsed, the state-run operator UNE said, plunging the nation's 10 million people into darkness — the second full blackout on the island in the last month ...