尽管在复数名词后使用撇号表示拥有看起来很自然,还是有权威反对这用法,比如语法学家RobertLowth。
Although it seemed natural to use an apostrophe in the possessive plural, authorities, such as the grammarian Robert Lowth, argued against this.
单数动词能与复数名词一起用吗?
复数名词是指超过一个人或物件。
英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
在希伯来语中,天堂这个词是复数名词。
在比较庄重的用语中,复数名词可放在前面。
名词的原形是单数的,有标记的名词则变成复数名词。
“A”指某一单独的事物或一个类别的事物,不应该与复数名词连用;
"A" should only be used to refer to a single item or category, and should not be used in conjunction with plural nouns;
本文就多义名词、同形异义名词以及单、复数名词的语义模糊性进行了分析和阐述。
This paper deals with the semantic fuzziness of polysemous nouns, homonymous nouns, and singular and plural nouns.
除非上下文另有要求,凡涉及到单数名词,则应包括复数名词,反之亦然;凡涉及到男(阳)性名词则应当包括女(阴)性名词,反之亦然。
Except where the context otherwise requires a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa, and a reference to the masculine includes feminine and vice versa.
试用以下单数名词的复数式来填充空格。
不过,随着时间的推移,许多以英语为母语的人认为它是可数名词的复数形式,于是就有了逆成词pea。
Many English-speakers over time thought this was a plural count noun, though, and so pea is a back-formation.
可数名词有单数和复数之分。
就名词的数范畴而言,可数性是可数名词的本质属性,单、双、复数形态是可数性的一种外在实现。
For the Number of nouns, countability is the essential property of count nouns, but the singular, dual and plural are the realization of this property.
和不可数名词一起用时可以是单数,和可数名词一起用时可以是复数。
SOME - can be singular with uncountable nouns or plural with countable nouns.
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