Susan Uttendorfsky brings us the fifth in her fabulous editing series via our ever-supportive Story Reading Ape. If you sometimes are addled when pluralizing certain nouns, hop over and read this informative article…
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Originally posted as the Dun Writin’—Now Whut? series on this blog, EDITING 101 is a weekly refresher series for some of you and brand new for others.
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General Plurals
When we’re writing anything, most plurals are obvious. One man, two men; one table, two tables; one goose, two geese; one moose, two meese… Now wait a minute there. As you can see, sometimes the plural of a noun is not as simple as it seems. Read the following sentences and see if you can figure out which are correct and which are not:
A. Moving out of my apartment, John and Kane, my brother-in-laws, dropped my favorite lamp.
B. All the cannon fired simultaneously at the enemy.
C. Our current cows consist of Jerseyes and Holsteins.
So, how do you think you did?
A. The noun “brother-in-law” is pluralized using the active noun, “brother.” Hence, the sentence shown…
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Many thanks for sharing Tina 😀 XXX
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Always my pleasure, Chris ❤
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This is a great series! 🙂 xo
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Agreed, Deb. And it’s coming at an auspicious time for me ❤
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Divine timing! ❤
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