Plural

Plural Inflections

Regular

Irregular

We can be confident that it will have a plural form with no idiosyncrasies of meaning

The complete

list of such nouns in English is not long.

Irregularity is a kind of idiosyncrasy that dictionaries need to acknowledge by indications

suffixing -s is the regular method of forming plurals.

for example, CHILD has the plural form children,

TOOTH has the plural teeth, and MAN has the plural men.

for examle, if the noun is PIANIST has the plural from pianists, CAT has the plural form cats

tooth noun (plural teeth).

in the politically purged variety of English called

Newspeak

the plural of MAN in Newspeak is not men but mans.

Words and Grammar

Lexemes

Word

Grammatical Words

The fact that some verbs appear with no suffixes is just a matter of grammar

words as lexemes are written in small capitals

while words as inflected forms continue to be

represented in italics

PERFORM

performs, performed, performing

we can describe the grammatical function of words by their tense, person, number, etc.

-s for third person of singluar

-s for plural

-ed for past

-ing for continuous tnese

The most straightforward way to define the term word form is to tie it to pronunciation

two word forms are the same if they are pronounced the same

they are are homophonous

one lexeme may be represented by more than one word form

"rows" can be seen as the plural form of ROW and the 3rd person of the verb

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Thery are seen as the basic form a verb