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English and plural
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.
In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).
Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.
The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).
The term " bagpipe " is equally correct in the singular or plural, although in the English language, pipers most commonly talk of " the pipes ", " a set of pipes ", or " a stand of pipes ".
11 ) identifies Old Norse Baldr with the Old High German Baldere ( 2nd Merseburg Charm, Thuringia ), Palter ( theonym, Bavaria ), Paltar ( personal name ) and with Old English bealdor, baldor " lord, prince, king " ( used always with a genitive plural, as in gumena baldor " lord of men ", wigena baldor " lord of warriors ", et cetera ).
For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.
First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".
Cannon serves both as the singular and plural of the noun, although in American English the plural cannons is more common.
The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.
However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").
Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "- s " that were once considered plural ( for example: " Physics is my favorite academic subject ").
In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.
For instance the word Ofen ( English: oven ) has the plural Öfen ( ovens ).
In Modern English, nouns have distinct singular and plural forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number.
The article is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although technically the words this and that, and their plural forms these and those, are modern forms of the as it was declined in Old English.
Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).
Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.
Though English pronouns can have subject and object forms ( he / him, she / her ), nouns show only a singular / plural and a possessive / non-possessive distinction ( e. g., chair, chairs, chair's, chairs &# 39 ;).
Verdi's name literally translates as " Joseph Green " in English ( although verdi is the plural form of " green ").
The standard plural of the word kimono in English is kimonos, but the unmarked Japanese plural kimono is also sometimes used.

English and illustrated
Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.
Paille-maille ( pall mall ) illustrated in Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs, published 1891.
The Expulsion illustrated in the English Caedmon manuscript, c. AD 1000
* 22 August 1865, La Feuille d ' Aoste reported “ It is rumored that English technicians to whom Mr. Manzetti illustrated his method for transmitting spoken words on the telegraph wire intend to apply said invention in England on several private telegraph lines ".
The Talmud El Am contains Hebrew text, English translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr A. Ehrman, with short ' realia ', marginal notes, often illustrated, written by experts in the field for the whole of Tractate Berakhot, 2 chapters of Bava Mezia and the halachic section of Qiddushin, chapter 1.
This is illustrated by the English saying: God created the world but the Dutch created Holland.
* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).
* " The Adventures of Jerry Cornelius " ( or " The English Assassin "), co-written with M. John Harrison and illustrated by Mal Dean
He illustrated his point by pointing out the absurdity of a Member of Parliament for West Lothian being able to vote on matters affecting the English town of Blackburn, Lancashire, but not Blackburn, West Lothian, in his own constituency, due to the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973 and its effects on Scottish local government.
From 2000 to 2010, Giraud published Inside Moebius ( French text despite English title ), an illustrated autobiographical fantasy in six hardcover volumes totaling 700 pages.
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book from 1744 by John Newbery was the earliest illustrated storybook marketed as pleasure reading in English.
The best of these were illustrated by the triumvirate of English illustrators Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, and Kate Greenaway whose association with colour printer and wood engraver Edmund Evans produced books of great quality.
The Mr. Men series of 40-some books by English author and illustrated Roger Hargreaves started in 1971.
* Frontinus at LacusCurtius: full texts of De aquis and Strategemata in Latin and English ; illustrated with some of the Monscassinensis manuscript from the Herschel edition.
" The change of view is illustrated clearly in the essay, published in the Tübinger Zeitschrift for 1831, on the Christ-party in the Corinthian Church, Die Christuspartei in der korinthischen Gemeinde, der Gegensatz des paulinischen und petrinischen Christentums in der ältesten Kirche, der Apostel Petrus in Rom, the trend of which is suggested by the title ( in English, ' The Christ Party in the Corinthian Community, the Opposition of Pauline and Petrine Christianity in the earliest Church, the apostle Peter in Rome ').
In the late 18th century, the English cleric William Gilpin wrote a series of hugely popular books describing his " picturesque " journeys throughout rural England and illustrated with his own sentimentalized monochrome watercolors of river valleys, ancient castles and abandoned churches ; his example popularized watercolors as a form of personal tourist journal.
Toshiro Mifune's sword fighting in the film was used in an extensive illustrated example of " samurai virtuosity with his sword " in " This is Kendo ", a kendo manual published in English.
His examples were limited and illustrated by facsimiled copies of the works, both written in English and Portuguese.
* Long John Silver is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Xavier Dorison, illustrated by Mathieu Laufray and published by Dargaud in French and Cinebook in English.
He collected insects and plants, made microscope slides and colored illustrated manuals, read hundreds of books, completed a draft for the English translation of Hojoki: The Ten Square Feet Hut co-authored with Frederick Victor Dickins, and proofread Primal Text of Japan also by Dickins.
He also produced very many illustrations for books, including nearly all the important English poets ( including his illustrated Shakespeare with almost 750 drawings ).
* 1953 Minting Error ( in English ; illustrated )
* Elkanah Settle's tragedy The Empress of Morocco, acted by the Duke's Company, is published in quarto ; in addition to its frontispiece illustration, the quarto contains five woodcuts depicting scenes in the play — the first English play text illustrated in this way.
In the English decision of Donoghue v. Allied Newspapers Limited ( 1938 ) Ch 106, the court illustrated the concept by stating that " the person who has clothed the idea in form, whether by means of a picture, a play or a book " owns the copyright.

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