English plurals - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_pluralsEnglish nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that, if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plural nouns are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For plurals of pronouns, see English p…
English plurals - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › English_pluralsIn the English system of grammatical number, singular means "one (or minus one)", and plural means "not singular." In other words, plural means not just "more than one" but also "less than one." This less-than aspect can be seen in cases like the temperature is zero degrees (not * zero degree) and 0.5 children per woman (not * 0.5 child per woman ).