Grammatical number
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Grammatical number is a grammatical property of nouns that express how many referents there are. English has both singular and plural forms of nouns.
Meaning[edit | edit source]
In English, singular nouns are used to refer to single referents; plural nouns are used otherwise.
Mass nouns are unbounded. Singular count nouns are bounded - they’re just one thing.
English also has dual number nouns, which can be referred to with the counter a pair of, e.g. a pair of trousers.
Form[edit | edit source]
In English, nouns must either be singular or plural.
English nouns generally carry grammatical markers indicating number. Regular nouns use plural -s to mark plurality.
English is very lightly inflected, but does have limited number concord, where a verb agrees with its subject.