Assertion: noun's form | /r/HasProperty | singular
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Few collective nouns, though they are in singular forms, are used in plural forms.
text: In most languages with grammatical number, nouns, and sometimes other parts of speech, have two forms, the singular, for one instance of a concept, and the plural, for more than one instance.
text: Some nouns have the same singular and plural form
text: Sometimes the plural form of a count noun is the same as its singular form, as in "I saw a deer in my yard yesterday.
text: For example, users of British English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or plural verb forms depending on context and the metonymic shift that it implies.
text: In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.
text: Most common nouns in English are countable — they have both singular and plural forms.
text: Most common nouns in English are countable—that is, they have both singular and plural forms.
text: Count nouns have both singular and plural forms and can be used with both singular and plural verb forms, as with the word letter in "A letter for you is on the table.
text: Count nouns have both singular and plural forms and can be used with both singular and plural verb forms, as with the word letter in "A letter for you is on the table.
text: Countable nouns can be used in both singular and plural forms can be modified by numerals and can co-occur with quantifying determiners such as many, most, more, several, etc.
text: Nouns can be classified further as count nouns, which name anything that can be counted (four books, two continents, a few dishes, a dozen buildings); mass nouns (or non-count nouns), which name something that can't be counted (water, air, energy, blood); and collective nouns, which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual person or items (jury, team, class, committee, herd).
text: Mass nouns, like "milk", "silverware", and "wisdom", are normally used in only the singular form.
text: Noncount nouns, on the other hand, have only a singular form; to make them plural is illogical.
text: Most nouns have singular and plural forms.
text: Most nouns have both singular and plural forms.
text: Nouns normally come in their singular form, however, if these nouns name more than one person, place, thing, animal, event, or idea, it is necessary for you to transform them into their plural form.
text: Most nouns have singular and plural forms.
text: By looking primarily at the second form (genitive singular), we can tell what declension the word is.
text: Many nouns have both singular and plural forms.
text: Pronouns, nouns and demonstratives are used exclusively in the singular and plural forms through the use of classifiers, suffixes and prefixes.
text: For instance, in Arabic all nouns can have singular, plural, or dual forms.
text: When the common form of such a word is singular, it is treated as if it has a regular plural, even if the final constituent of the word is usually pluralized in an irregular fashion.
text: Some nouns have no singular form.
text: Nouns lacking plural or singular form [ edit ]
text: Some nouns, however, have only a singular form; you cannot add a number to the front or an s to the end of these words.
text: Nouns normally come in their singular form, however, if these nouns name more than one person, place, thing, animal, event, or idea, it is necessary for you to transform them into their plural form.