The phrase "a plural formation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the grammatical structure of words or phrases that indicate more than one entity or item.
Example: "In English, the plural formation of most nouns is achieved by adding an 's' at the end."
Alternatives: "a plural structure" or "a plural construction".
Outside Arabic and the Southwest Semitic languages, the sound method of plural formation predominates, though residual traces in the remaining Semitic languages, as in Syriac ḥemrā, plural of ḥəmārā 'donkey,' suggest that broken plurals cannot be regarded solely as a peculiarity of the languages of the southern area.
In these examples, the singular form has the tone pattern High-High (H-H), while the complex plural form has the tone pattern High-Low-High (H-L-H), which always occurs with this plural formation type.
The phonological rules of English could simply list the phonemes that behave in the same way in the rules for plural formation; the rules for the possessive forms of nouns and for the 3rd person singular of the present tense of verbs are similar in this respect.
Already in the first complete statement of her view (in Gilbert 1989), she elaborated that the formation of a plural subject, or the entering of a joint commitment, is preceded by an open display of 'readiness' on the part of the individual agents.
If we adopt a language that allows the formation of plural terms we can unproblematically define a plural identity relation that holds between pluralities of objects too.
A plural variable takes as its semantic value a plurality of entities, not a plural entity (such as a set or class).
In the modern languages personal pronouns often take a plural marker different from that of the nouns, and in Sami the dual formation is restricted to pronouns and personal affixes.
"Bafana is already a plural.
A compound subject like this is plural and should take a plural verb.
