Perhaps this is a silly question, but still:
Can only nouns can be plural in English? In other words, the plurality "term" doesn't usually apply to any other part of speech, correct?
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Can only nouns can be plural in English? In other words, the plurality "term" doesn't usually apply to any other part of speech, correct?
In English, it's mostly nouns that take a plural mark, and in particular adjectives don't. There are however other words that take a plural mark:
The indicative present form of verbs is also different for the third person singular and for the third person plural (“I see”, “she sees”, “they see”). With the verb be, this also applies to the simple past, and for both the present and the simple past, the first person singular takes a different mark (“I am”, “she is”, “we are”, “they are”; “I was”, “she was”, “we were”, “they were”).
Well, in a way, yes. Other parts of speech have to agree with the noun.
I can't think of adjectives that have different forms like verbs, but there are certainly adjectives that only apply to plural things.
There is no plural form for verbs / adjectives instead they're altered to refer to a plural subject. *
Verbs do not form their plurals by adding an s as nouns do.
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For verb: Its an action of the subject it refers to. That action is one and done by many subjects.
For Adjective: Its the property of the noun which it refers to and it can't have it in plural. Countless problems - Countless is the property of the problems and i don't find it to be plural in sense.
But pronouns make some sense in plural. I'm not a native English speaker though.