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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. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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   Strong, class 1: ring – rang – rung: Strong, class 3: By analogy; regular when meaning "surround", etc. rise – rose – risen arise – arose – arisen uprise – uprose – uprisen: Strong, class 1: rive – rived/rove – rived/riven: Strong class 1: From Old Norse; later regularized; [5] now rarely used run – ran – run outrun ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   See English plural § Singulars with collective meaning treated as plural. English nouns are not marked for case as they are in some languages, but they have possessive forms, through the addition of -'s (as in John's , children's ) or just an apostrophe (with no change in pronunciation) in the case of -[e]s plurals ( the dogs' owners ) and ...

5. Regularization (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Regularization is a linguistic phenomenon observed in language acquisition, language development, and language change typified by the replacement of irregular forms in morphology or syntax by regular ones. Examples are "gooses" instead of "geese" in child speech and replacement of the Middle English plural form for "cow", "kine", with "cows". [1]

6. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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   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 goes" versus "They go").

7. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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   Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. New verbs (including loans from other languages, and nouns employed as verbs) usually follow the regular inflection, unless they are compound formations from an existing irregular verb (such as housesit , from ...