| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...bellows, scissors, lungs, riches, &c. Some words are the same in both numbers ; as deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es'm the plural: as box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes ; kiss, kisses... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...scissors, lungs, riches, &.c. Some words are the same in both numbers ; as deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, cb soft, sb, ss, or j, we add es in the plural: as box, boxes; church, churches ; lash, lashes ; kiss,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 348 pages
...fciffors, lungs, riches, &c. Some words are the fame in both numbers ; as, deer, fheep, fwine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to the fingular : as, dove, doves ; face, faces ; thought, thoughts. But when the fubftantive fingular ends... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...numbers ; as, deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding * to tfce singular : as, dove, doves; face, faces; thought,...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, cfi soft, ak, it, or st we add es in the plural : as box, boxes ; church, churches ; lash, lashes ;... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...bellows, scissors, lungs, riches, &c. Some words are the same in both numbers ; as deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed, by...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, */;, *s, or s, we add es in the plural ; as, box, boxes ; church, churches ; lash, lashes ; kiss,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 118 pages
...fciffors, lungs, riches, &c. Some words are the fame in both numbers ; as, deer, fiieep, fwine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to the fingular ; as, dove, doves ; ETIMOLOGT. 19 face, faces ; thought, thoughts. But when the fubftantive... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...both numbers ; as deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed, by adding * to the singular, as, dove, doves ; face, faces ; thought,...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, ch, soft, s/i, ss, or *,we add es in the plural ; as box, boxes ; church, churches ; lash, lashes j kiss,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 292 pages
...both numbers ; as, deer, sheep, swine, &c. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding « to the singular : as, dove, doves ; face, faces; thought,...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, oh soft, sli, ss, or *, we add es in the plural : as, box, boxes ; church, churches ; lash, lashes... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 356 pages
...numbers ; as, deer, sheep, swine, &c. The pluraJ number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to.the singular : as, dove, doves ; face, faces ; thought,...thoughts. But when the substantive singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es in the plural : as box; boxes ; church, churches; lash, lashes ; kiss,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1818 - 158 pages
...; as, chair, table, man. The Plural number expresses more objects than one ; as, chairs, tab Imen. The plural number of nouns is generally formed by adding s to the singular; as, tree, trees; dove, doves. But when the singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es in the... | |
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