Some plural nouns can be difficult to spell. There are rules that can help you remember how to spell plural nouns. The rules for regular plural nouns are: Just add an ‘s’ Add an 'es' Drop the ...

But it’s not, because the rule is: If you mean it as a plural ... verb and another sentence in which the same noun works better with a plural. So when consistency isn’t an option, forget ...

and make the plural of a word like "bookcase" into "bookscase." We all know, of course, that this isn't correct, but what is the exact rule? Most compounds that are made up of two nouns _ whether ...

But the plural noun that follows ... So while there’s no rule the requires you to make the verb match the nearest noun, it’s clearly the best choice. I’ll try to remember that.

Let us start with extracting from the underspecified lexical of the noun book the features of Count and Plural: First, let us suppose that the Nil feature Plural is specified as [+Pl], a rule occurrin ...

First some terminology. Nouns that can form plurals are called "count nouns." Mail, historically, is what is known as a "mass noun" — a noun that can't be enumerated and thus resists ...

A 65 per cent majority is against the implementation of the rule ... Many is normally plural, but it takes a singular verb when a singular noun follows the phrase “many a” as in the ...

Of all the grammar concepts we have, "plural" seems to be one of the most straightforward. You got one thing? It's singular. Got more than one thing? It's plural. But alas, language is always less ...

Most plural nouns follow this simple rule and these words are easy to spell. Remember that adding an apostrophe ‘s’ does not make a plural noun. For example: ‘We saw lots of bird’s in the ...