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However, when a word ends in a “-y” preceded by avowel, then we simply add an “-s” as usual. There are some nouns that are irregular. They do not adhere to spelling rules, and so these need to be memorized. Continue reading... ...
Wondering when to add “-s” or “-es” when making singular nouns plural? Follow these two simple rules, so your writing always looks polished.
Adding -s, -es, -ies, and -ves – Rules for Pluralizing Words Poster Did you know that nouns reign supreme as the largest group of words in the vast and diverse realm of the English language? Yes, it’s true! A noun is a word that represents a person, place, or thing. And if...
This module uses a pre-defined list of rules, applied in order, to singularize or pluralize a given word. There are many cases where this is useful, such as any automation based on user input. For applications where the word(s) are known ahead of time, you can use a simple ternary (...
These rules and ideas for how to teach them are given in the article How to Teach Irregular Plurals on this site. Kind of on the cusp between regular and irregular plurals (but trickier and less important than either) is plurals of longer expressions like “brothers-in-law”, “passers-by...
This article describes the rules and patterns that can make the whole range of English plural nouns both more manageable and more learnable. How to make regular plurals How to make regular plurals with -s and -es Most English words simply take -s to make the plural form, as in “cats”...
As indicated by the comments in the previous example, the actual value returned by the various compare methods encodes which of the three equality rules succeeded: "eq" is returned if the strings were identical, "s:p" if the strings were singular and plural respectively, "p:s" for plural ...
Speakers of English incorporated some regular plurals into the noun-noun compounds they produced. These results contradict the words-and-rules theory of Pinker (1999) and also the semantic constraints for compounding put forth byAlegre and Gordon (1996). Interestingly, it appears, however, that ...
As you can see, a few nouns follow different rules for making plurals. 问的好,你也看到了,有些名词的复数遵循不同的规则。 Yeah, but why? 是的,但为什么呢? Well, the answer is in our history. 答案源于我们的历史。 The English language has borrowed words from many languages. 英语有许多从...