In linguistics, grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. Modern English like most other languages distinguishes two numbers: singular and plural. The meaning of singular and plural seems to be self-explanatory, that is the opposition: one and more than one. With all this, expression of number in different classes of English nouns presents certain difficulties for a foreigner to master.
CATEGORY OF GRAMMATICAL NUMBER IN ENGLISH
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Category of grammatical number
singular and plural nouns
grammatical and stylistic features of plural nouns
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