The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

A plural noun is used when there is more than one of something. Most nouns close noun A naming word for an object, idea, person or place. follow rules to turn them into plural nouns. Some plural ...

Nouns that are made up of words that are not nouns also form their plurals on the last element, as in the plurals "breakthroughs" and "close-ups." Matters become more complicated than this, though.

Deriving the English Noun. Linguistics 323. Morphology . 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 ...

When it comes to apostrophes, there are a lot of do’s and don’ts. The least-understood and most crucial of all is: Don’t use an apostrophe to form a plural. One luau plus another luau is not ...

• A 65 per cent majority is against the implementation of the rule. ... The phrase “many a” is always followed by a singular noun though the meaning is plural. — [email protected].

There are some nouns that only have a plural form, regardless of how we think of them. They are known as pluralia tantum , Latin for "plural only." Here are 11 of them.