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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. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    plural of base / ˈ b eɪ s iː z / noun plural of basis: bass / ˈ b eɪ s / noun low in pitch / ˈ b æ s / noun a fish blessed / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d / adjective having divine aid / ˈ b l ɛ s t / verb past tense of bless: bow / ˈ b oʊ / noun a stringed weapon, or the initiator of sound in some stringed musical instruments. noun

  4. Analogical change - Wikipedia

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    During the acquisition of grammatical change, children are prone to overregularization, in which the children extends a particular grammatical rule to apply to irregular forms by analogy, such as created forms such as mans and mouses for the plural of man and mouse on the basis of the regular English plural. If this overregularization becomes ...

  5. Plural - Wikipedia

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    English also tends to use the plural with decimal fractions, even if less than one, as in 0.3 metres, 0.9 children. Common fractions less than one tend to be used with singular expressions: half (of) a loaf , two-thirds of a mile .

  6. 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]

  7. Bases - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... the plural form of base (disambiguation) the plural form of basis (disambiguation) See also. Base (disambiguation)

  8. Change of basis - Wikipedia

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    A change of basis consists of converting every assertion expressed in terms of coordinates relative to one basis into an assertion expressed in terms of coordinates relative to the other basis. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

  9. Grammatical case - Wikipedia

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    The personal pronouns of Modern English retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order , by prepositions , and by the " Saxon genitive " ( -'s ).