By Plurals, Vowels

. Well duh. One of the two must be the vowel-- I, O or U... and sometimes Y.Abstract noun....goodmoodhushliftriftploy Is it countable, and if so, is it plural?

Thank you very much CJ, Zerox, and Carson. You all have given me very valuable advices. After reading through all you said carefully, and then watching a couple of English TV programmes, I believe I can now tell the difference! The ending /z/ in most cases are much shorter, voiced but less...

Anonymous wrote:How's is pronounced . Traditionally, the RP pronunciation has been /haʊsIz/, although I suppose some speakers equate the vowel sound with that of 'beat' (half-long) these days. I was trying to be brief and therefore didn't go into details. How's and house are different in that...

Hi Cool Breeze, How's is pronounced . Traditionally, the RP pronunciation has been /haʊsIz/, although I suppose some speakers equate the vowel sound with that of 'beat' (half-long) these days.

Cool Breeze wrote:Hi PterHow's is pronounced .CBSorry CB, I think I didn't make it clear. My question is not about the voiced z and the voiceless s. My question is about the aʊ sound. It seems to me they are somewhat slightly different.

Hi PterHow's is pronounced .CB

CalifJim wrote:I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms.I am indeed looking for something like irregular verb forms. The comparison with bays, days, etc. is just a remark. But what is intriguing is that says is not an irregular verb. It is formed by just adding an s. It's...

Another opinion... From the Gregg Reference Manual: When words taken from other parts of speech are used as nouns, they are usually pluralized by the addition of s or es. Ifs, ands, or buts Dos and don’ts Yeses and nos Ins and outs Ups and downs Yeas and nays Pros and...

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

Juaponce wrote:Hello Everyone, I need to know anything about IMPERATIVE MOOD... Would somebody be able to answer me? Thanks a lot The imperative is much easier to form in English than in Spanish. We simply use the infinitive without "to". Go! Sit! Come in! (exclamation points not...