plural form

collocation in English

meanings of pluraland form

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plural
adjective
uk /ˈplʊə.rəl/ us /ˈplʊr.əl/
consisting of lots of different races or types of people or of ...
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form
noun
uk /fɔːm/ us /fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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Examples of plural form

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Thus, these forms are to a certain extent morphologically integrated, although this is only visible in the pluralform.
The incorrect pluralform was only produced by one subject for the construction piece of the across all three age groups.
As such, the example demonstrates the simplest type of search, a lexical search for a noun and its pluralform.
But even here, notice that it is the pluralform that stands for the group.
In contrast, in singular article contexts, the children rarely produced a pluralform.
On those trials, children always, correctly, used a pluralform.
The syncretism between the comitative singular and locative pluralform represents another pattern that cannot be explicated in feature terms.
Recall from 2.2 that verbs beginning with voiced glottalised consonants become devoiced in the pluralform which takes the nasal grade.
In a sentence like (12b), however, other cannot possibly be analysed as a pluralform.
Note that the significance of other lacking a determiner in sentences like (12a-b) cannot be explained away by saying that it is a pluralform.
These data provide an estimate of each child's familiarity with irregular nouns, regardless of whether they are used in any type of pluralform.
Table 9 mentions only 6 cases, but in all of these cases the reduction of the putative pluralform leads to a better one.
Parents are asked to indicate if their child produces irregular nouns in their correct pluralform (five items).
French borrowings can obtain either an -s or a schwa in the pluralform.
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