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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pluralize .
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Examples
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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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I’ve seen the term pluralized with any possible combination of added s’s — including weapons system — with the most common being weapons systems.
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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.
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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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It offers a simple way to make plurals: given twice, nouns are literally “pluralized.”
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It offers a simple way to make plurals: given twice, nouns are literally “pluralized.”
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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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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.
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Oh yes, Walmart is almost always pluralized, goodness only knows why.
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