Eagerlearner  +  688468 Thu, 19 Mar 09 08:13 AM Hello, let's be short and to the point. "He loves many girls" For the noun "girls" gives a meaning of many to the reader that they are many girls. For the verb "loves", besides for grammatical purpose, what is the use of differentiating singular and plural verb ? like "He loves" "They love" Why not always only have "He love" "They love" Is it just a dummy convention/rule or is there a context that this differentiation is useful in denoting something meaningful (besides grammatical purpose) ? Thanks, William Eagerlearner Joined on Wed, Sep 12 2007 New Member 43 Nouns, Plurals, Context

	Cool Breeze  +  688474 Thu, 19 Mar 09 08:33 AM There used to be more inflected verb forms in English but they have slowly made their way out of the language. I don't think anyone knows why those inflections originally came to be used. From my viewpoint English is extremely simple as far as verb forms are concerned because in my mother tongue, Finnish, a verb has hundreds of different forms. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,978 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991 Inflections, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

	Cool Breeze  +  688543 Thu, 19 Mar 09 01:24 PM Eagerlearner “Thank you Cool Breeze, now I am more certain that inflecitional verb is just a grammatical purpose. ” You're welcome. I think you're right. There are cases in which having lots of verb forms may help make the meaning clearer. Oddly enough, there's no difference between singular and plural verbs in Swedish, another Germanic language, which is very closely related to English: he sings = han sjunger they sing = de sjunger This is all the more surprising as Swedish grammar and morphology is more complicated than English in other respects. CB Cool Breeze Difference Between, Plurals, Morphology, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages