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Head-First Plural Nouns Posted by on Mar 8, 2018

I was listening to the news on my car radio recently when I heard a reporter say that the U.S. government was being sued by a group of “states attorneys general”. I’ve heard that term before and knew that the use of the plural was correct, but it still sounded odd to me. Then, a…

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Making irregular plural nouns in English Posted by on Sep 2, 2012

Creating plurals nouns in English is easy, all you have to do is add -s to the end of the nouns (+ s).  For example, girl → girls and boy → boys.  Well, it is almost that easy.  Some nouns you have to add -es to the end of the word (+ es).  And then…

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