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