Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Just as with any other title, a plural base title can direct to an article , or to a disambiguation page . A plural base title can also redirect to an article (Bookends redirects to Bookend; Faces redirects to Face). If separate primary topics are determined, add a hatnote from the plural page to the singular form (or vice versa).
The plural form of a noun is usually created by adding the suffix-(e)s. The pronouns have irregular plurals, as in "I" versus "we", because they are ancient and frequently used words going back to when English had a well developed system of declension. English verbs distinguish singular from plural number in the third person present tense ("He ...
The most common English form of an Ancient Greek name or term may fall into any of three groups: . Latinization. This is the traditional English way of representing most Greek names in English and is well-represented in the naming of Wikipedia articles: Jesus and Uranus (not Iēsoûs or Ouranós), Alexander and Byzantium (not Aléxandros or Byzántion), Plato and Apollo (not Plátōn or ...
Conversely, gh is never pronounced /f/ in syllable onsets other than in inflected forms, and is almost never pronounced /ɡ/ in syllable codas (the proper name Pittsburgh is an exception). Some words contain silent letters , which do not represent any sound in modern English pronunciation.
The practice from which these patronymics arose also gave rise to the filiation, which in later times, once the nomen had become fixed, nearly always followed the nomen. Other nomina were derived from names that later came to be regarded as cognomina, such as Plancius from Plancus or Flavius from Flavus; or from place-names, such as Norbanus ...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Trump Media & Technology Group Corp breached an agreement with Patrick Orlando's ARC Global and was ordered to deliver to the group a larger portion of stock in the ...
Plural nouns take -s after a vowel, -es after a consonant (but final -c, -g change in spelling to -ches, -ghes to preserve the hard [k] and [g] sound of c and g). catto 'cat' → cattos 'cats' can 'dog' → canes 'dogs' roc 'rook' [chess] → roches 'rooks' Interlingua has no grammatical gender. Animate nouns are sex-neutral, unless they refer ...