Singulative
"Singulative" in a Sentence (3 examples)
English doesn't have a singulative number in general, but many uncountable nouns have usual singulative constructions.
The singulative of "cattle" is "a head of cattle".
The singulative of "scissors" is "a pair of scissors".
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