Editing Grammatical number (section)

===English===
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[[English language|English]] is typical of most world languages, in distinguishing only between singular and plural number. Singular corresponds to exactly one (or minus one), while plural applies to all other cases, including more and less than one or even 1.0.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hauser |first=Mark |date=2009-09-01 |title=The Origin of the Mind |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-the-mind/ |journal=Scientific American |volume=301 |issue=3 |pages=44–51 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0909-44 |pmid=19708527 |bibcode=2009SciAm.301c..44H }}</ref> The plural form of a noun is usually created by adding the [[suffix]] ''-(e)s''. The pronouns have irregular plurals, as in "I" versus "we", because they are ancient and frequently used words going back to when English had a well developed system of [[declension]]. English verbs distinguish singular from plural number in the third person present tense ("He goes" versus "They go"). [[Old English]] also contained dual grammatical numbers; Modern English retains a few residual terms reflective of dual number (such as ''both'' and ''neither'', as opposed to ''all'' and ''none'' respectively), but they are generally considered to no longer constitute a separate grammatical number.