Actually, there's a sense in which "a people" is the singular and "the peoples" is the plural. It never has an -s ending; it is already plural. The a's are both short in both languages. Double Plurals : When one thing is spoken of, the Noun takes Singular form.
A double plural is a plural form to which an extra suffix has been added, mainly because the original plural suffix (or other variation) had become unproductive and therefore irregular.
We hope you have less doubts about the words with double plural. Incidents doesn't sound plural enough — just as quince (in 1300s one coyn and many coyns) didn't for early English speakers (Quinces is historically a double plural). In such cases, the conventionally formed English plural may sound awkward or be confusing.Other words whose plurals are sometimes used as singulars include:It is common in informal speech to pluralize the last word instead, like most English nouns, but in edited prose aimed at educated people, the forms given above are usually preferred.Such -ata plurals also occur in Latin words borrowed from Greek, e.g.
("lines"), ff. ("opera" as plural of opus).Any zero quantity can be plural or singular, though plural is the default.
The noun people has both a PLURAL sense and a SINGULAR sense. The plural morpheme in English is suffixed to the end of most nouns. So the following plurals are standard.There are many other less regular ways of forming plurals, usually stemming from older forms of English or from foreign borrowings.As noted, the word "children" comes from an earlier form "childer". ("following lines/pages"), hh. ("Saints"), ss.
– Monty Harder Jul 13 '16 at 18:20.
As always you can practice by writing some sentences with double plural. (or §§) ("sections"), vv. Form Regular plurals. ("hands", as a measure), PP. The noun people can be countable or uncountable.. I'm referring to the possessive form of "peoples". So the form as a whole was no longer seen as a plural, an instance of morphological leveling. ("volumes"). It only takes a minute to sign up.People is the correct word.If you are talking about the plural, then particularly use people, but if you are talking about pointing or showing some possession of something to any plural category then people's is okay.John's book -> the book that belongs to John. In the PLURAL sense, people is used as the plural of person very frequently. Other nouns that have identical singular and plural forms include:English (like Latin and certain other European languages) can form a plural of certain one-letter abbreviations by doubling the letter: p. ("page"), pp. Regular English plurals fall into three classes, depending upon the sound that ends the singular form: Where a singular noun ends in a sibilant sound— /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ —the plural is formed by adding /ɪz/ or /əz/ (in some transcription systems, this is abbreviated as /ᵻz/).
We will correct any mistake. If you want to test your Italian level, try our vocabulary video-test! Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new … Other examples include ll. When two or more things are spoken of, the Noun takes Plural form. Egypt is a country in Africa. Proper Nouns, Material Nouns and Abstract Nouns generally have no Plural, unless they are used as Common Nouns.
("pages").