Karsee
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- Joined
- Sep 29, 2022
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Setswana
- Home Country
- Sweden
- Current Location
- Sweden
Hello. I was just wondering about this, but would it be true to say there are contexts in which a word can end with an s, despite only referring to a single thing? For example, if I tell someone "here is a paper which lists all the countries I've visited", and only a single country is written on the paper, the initial statement still seems prima facie to not be misguiding. The point of this is that despite it being in plural form, the reference of the word is only a single object. Hopefully this question isn't silly, but i'm just curious: Do we accept the conclusion, and that a word in "plural form" can seemingly only refer to a single object (atleast within the context above), or is there a deeper grammatical flaw within the statement?
Thanks alot!
Thanks alot!