Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Plural: A plural word identical to its singular form. For instance, 'I saw one deer yesterday, but last week I saw five deer.' Here, the word deer is identical whether it is singular or plural. Other examples include sheep, swine, folk, and (in Middle English) horse and kind, which did not develop the plural form horses and kinds until the 1600s through linguistic hypercorrection.
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Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Plural: A plural word identical to its singular form. For instance, 'I saw one deer yesterday, but last week I saw five deer.' Here, the word deer is identical whether it is singular or plural. Other examples MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Genitive: A genitive that has no case ending to signal its function. A number of such uninflected genitives appeared in Early Modern English--especially for nouns that originally were feminine in Anglo-Saxon gr MORE