{"id":71823,"date":"2019-08-28T07:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71823"},"modified":"2019-08-28T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T07:56:54","slug":"singular-and-plural-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/singular-and-plural-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Singular And Plural"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Singular<\/h3>\n<p>A grammatical form used to talk about one person, thing etc.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: <strong><em>cat, dog, boy, girl, tree, book etc.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an uncountable noun, the singular is usually the only form that exists at all.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are: <strong><em>wheat, flour, water and spaghetti.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The grammatical category that distinguishes singular from plural is called number.<\/p>\n<h3>Plural<\/h3>\n<p>That form of a noun which normally denotes that more than one person or thing is being mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The English plural is regularly formed by addin<strong>g -s (and sometimes -es)<\/strong> to the singular.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<strong><em> boy\/boys; girl\/girls; book\/books; fox\/foxes.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few dozen nouns form their plurals irregularly. Examples are: <strong><em>child\/children; man\/men; woman\/women; tooth\/teeth; foot\/feet; millennium\/millennia; and others.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not all nouns have a plural form: for example, <strong><em>furniture, wheat, dust, news, advice and scenery<\/em><\/strong> normally have only a singular form. With some nouns, the plural is identical in form to the singular.<\/p>\n<p>Examples are:<em> sheep and deer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singular A grammatical form used to talk about one person, thing etc. Examples are: cat, dog, boy, girl, tree, book etc. With an uncountable noun, the singular is usually the only form that exists&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[870,873,869,912,872],"class_list":["post-71823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-plural","tag-plural-nouns","tag-singular","tag-singular-and-plural","tag-singular-nouns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71824,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71823\/revisions\/71824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}