English Plural
English nouns are inflected for grammatical number – that is, if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plural nouns 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.
Phonological transcriptions provided in this article are for Received Pronunciation and General American. For more information, see English phonology.
Read more about English Plural: Regular Plurals, Near-regular Plurals, Irregular Plurals, Plurals of Compound Nouns, Plurals of Letters and Abbreviations, Headless Nouns, Plurals of Numbers, Nouns Used Attributively, Teams and Their Members, Adjectives As Collective Plurals
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