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  2. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    Any quantity that includes decimal precision is plural. This includes 1 followed by any number of zeros. It is normal to say 1.0 gallons per flush, for instance, 0.6 units, or 3.3 children per couple, not *1.0 gallon, *0.6 unit, or *3.3 child per couple.

  3. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    The same suffix may be used with more than one category of number, as for example the orginary numbers secondary and tertiary and the distributive numbers binary and ternary. For the hundreds, there are competing forms: Those in -gent- , from the original Latin, and those in -cent- , derived from centi- , etc. plus the prefixes for 1 through 9 .

  4. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    The word "number" is also used in linguistics to describe the ... there is a four-way distinction of nouns being singular with 1, dual with 2, plural with 3 or 4, and ...

  5. Nonconcatenative morphology - Wikipedia

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    Nonconcatenative morphology is extremely well developed in the Semitic languages in which it forms the basis of virtually all higher-level word formation (as with the example given in the diagram). That is especially pronounced in Arabic , which also uses it to form approximately 41% [ 5 ] of plurals in what is often called the broken plural .

  6. Inflection - Wikipedia

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    Inflection of the Scottish Gaelic lexeme for 'dog', which is cù for singular, chù for dual with the number dà ('two'), and coin for plural. In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation [1] in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and ...

  7. Squad number (association football) - Wikipedia

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    While the original 2–3–5 formation used the same numbering system dictated by the English clubs in 1928, subsequent changes were developed independently. The basic formation to understand the Argentine numbering system is the 433 formation, used by the coach César Menotti for the team that won the 1978 World Cup. The squad numbers are:

  8. Formation (association football) - Wikipedia

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    43–2–1 formation. The 43–2–1, commonly described as the "Christmas tree" formation, has another forward brought on for a midfielder to play "in the hole", so leaving two forwards slightly behind the most forward striker. Terry Venables and Christian Gross used this formation during their time in charge of Tottenham Hotspur.

  9. Formation (American football) - Wikipedia

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    The 4-3 defense has 2 tackles and 2 ends; the 3-4 defense has 2 ends and 1 tackle, who is sometimes called a nose tackle (NT) to indicate the 3-4. Tackles line up inside and rely on power to stop the run, while ends line up outside and are faster and more athletic to allow them to pursue the quarterback.