How To Use Pluralise In A Sentence

• If you used the shortened form, you'd just say "in-laws' house", but since you're using the full form, it's correct to pluralise the noun and not the modifier ('parents' rather than 'in law'), and then make the entire term possessive, because it's acting as a noun cluster. ("parents-in-law's") The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
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• Intriguingly, in all 102 instances that I recorded of the phrase ‘failed businessman’ appearing in print media, only once was it a direct quotation; this is also the one time when it was pluralised.
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• In recent years, Australian society has differentiated and pluralised.
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• He argued that ‘you cannot pluralise civilisation.
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• Now I know how to pluralise a remarkable number of nouns (you can't just bung an ‘s’ on the end of a word).
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