How To Use Pluralize In A Sentence
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Abbreviations with periods take ‘s when pluralized, which is probably because they look more awkward without apostrophes:
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
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Car owners, marketers, and automotive writers have been confounded as to the proper way to pluralize Toyota Prius since the first-generation sedan helped introduce hybrid cars to the mainstream, beginning with the 2001 model year in the United States.
Buzzword: Toyota Prius + Prius = Prii
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As far as I can tell, men definitely care about things, and I have purposefully pluralized "thing" there, because they show endless amounts of evidence that they have cried, been unable to stop thinking about only one person, and not noticed the teenage girl in the tight Juicy Couture shirt.
Kate Fridkis: Not Every Man Wants to Have Sex With Every Woman
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I simply look at a word like ONES and think, How odd that looks; a word that by definition means one thing (singular) is pluralized.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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Here are the Class and Property Naming Preferences settings to singularize Northwind EntityType names, pluralize EntitySet names, and remove the underscore from the Order_Detail (s) name wherever it occurs:
OakLeaf Systems
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It is insufficient already because it only pluralizes the perspective of observation and precisely fails to enter into the position of the participants.
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Various theologies compete for attention in a highly pluralized field, and no theology has made much of a public impact.
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It offers a simple way to make plurals: given twice, nouns are literally “pluralized.”
The English Is Coming!
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Stamper explains that throughout history, the word "octopus" has been pluralized as octopuses, octopi, and the more unusual octopodes.
Is It 'Octopuses' Or 'Octopi'? Merriam-Webster Has The Answer In 'Ask An Editor' (VIDEO)
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That which you singularize, I pluralize and I believe I am more accurate about that.
In the transgender vanguard.
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My biggest beef, though, is with the erroneous use of apostrophes to pluralize acronyms and abbreviations like CEOs, GIs, and CDs.
Arianna Huffington: Arianna's Grammar Pet Peeve: The Apostrophe Crisis
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According to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, there is one case when it's permissable to use an apostrophe to pluralize something.
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Suffice it to say that I avoid using periods in pluralized abbreviations because they look atrocious no matter how you write them.
Preposterous Apostrophes II: Pluralization « Motivated Grammar
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Often when you try to run a script and forget about plurality, RoR will attempt to automatically pluralize or singularize for you this can be annoying.
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Oh yes, Walmart is almost always pluralized, goodness only knows why.
Colour them turtles faster, Boy…. « Mudpuddle
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His goal is ‘to pluralize our understanding of the philosophical era known as ‘the Enlightenment’’.
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(I would also comment that I have NEVER seen anyone use an apostrophe to pluralize denominations of bills.)
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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Of us" is a prepositional phrase and therefore "us," though referring to many instead of one, cannot pluralize the verb form.
Scozzafava takes on Palin
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In line with this trend, the newly pluralized social landscape also saw the appearance of a host of religious activists with backgrounds and interests different from those of classically-educated Muslim scholars (ulama).
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If the compound is pluralized, the plural morpheme attaches only to the second element, not to the first, or to both: girl-friends, * girls-friends, * girls-friend.
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How do speakers pluralize nouns in Japanese?
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IFOT speculates that the source of the problem is that our general culture still valorizes a Romantic model of artistic production that equates the text (or song, etc) with the author's own feelings and is very resistant to models of aesthetic signification that complicate or pluralize the possible meanings in a text.
Literary Study
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They certainly never learned how to pluralize nouns ending in ‘y.’
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Either singularize the subject or pluralize the verb.
Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
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So preparation is a behavior whose first motion instantly pluralizes itself.
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They can pluralize the number of domestic actors that contribute to the definition of customary and cultural norms
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Whether full or partial, reduplication can serve to intensify an adjective, place a verb into the future or the past, pluralize a noun or scatter its distribution, render an action continuous, or simply imply repetition.
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Several times the subject of that moment when his little girl was pluralized in fear by the fighter planes has arisen and I always mention he should imagine the fear if the bombs had been real.
Matthew Yglesias » Ground Attack
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In the past, we have avoided referring to the Toyota Prius in the plural, as there was no comfortable way to pluralize the car name.
Buzzword: Toyota Prius + Prius = Prii
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Singularization and Pluralization of Names: The LLBLGen Pro designer now singularizes and pluralizes names for entities, fields, etc. based on a plug-in based system.
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Let me outline this in the form of two simple propositions: Modernity pluralizes the lifeworlds of individuals and consequently undermines all taken-for-granted certainties.
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For the record, it's also not correct to use apostrophes to pluralize decades.
Apostrophe Castastrophe
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I’ve seen the term pluralized with any possible combination of added s’s — including weapons system — with the most common being weapons systems.
Word Court
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Contemporary Western feminist theory in the 1980s moved beyond the dialogues that sought to differentiate feminisms from each other and instead began to articulate a more pluralized notion of feminism at its core.
