What is singular number?

Singular number is number that refers to one member of a designated class.

• The singular form bat as opposed to bats.
• Mass nouns may be indicated by singular number, such as the singular form sugar.

• What is number?

Crystal 1980 245

Hartmann and Stork 1972 210

Context for this page:

• Concept module: singular number
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): S
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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