The phrases “water,” “rice,” and “literature” at first seem like they should be plural. If we said “bowls of carrots” or “different types of books” the noun would be pluralized. However, because water ...
Countable nouns can become pluralized (e.g. chair becomes chairs), whereas uncountable nouns cannot take a different plural form (e.g. “milk” does not become “milks”). Abstract nouns refer to concepts ...
Tradition, however, should no doubt be pluralized; for as Jacques Goimard once pointed out to me, there are two such currents, not one. These are the same two mapped in the brief but thorough opening ...
much less in an age of pluralized culture where there’s plenty of room to cater to every audience. This doesn’t give Anything’s Possible a free pass in terms of quality—and there are ...
I got to get the kids home.’ That ‘s,’ the pluralized kid, is a big deal.” Still, Greenfield hasn’t been shy about the difficulty of raising two kids. “The second kid was a wake-up ...
The chapter provides an overview of the developments in synchronic and diachronic corpus-linguistic research into World Englishes (WEs), detailing methodological concerns such as sampling frames, ...
Mitt Romney in trying to justify his TV attack ads against his Iowa primary rival Newt Gingrich even pluralized it, “There’s no question politics ain’t beanbags!” Then came candidate ...