Plural

== POS tagging ==
In [[part-of-speech tagging]] notation, tags are used to distinguish different types of plurals based on their grammatical and semantic context.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sketchengine.eu/pos-tags/ |title=POS tags |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2018-03-27 |website=[[Sketch Engine]] |publisher=Lexical Computing |access-date=2018-04-06 }}</ref> Resolution varies, for example the Penn-Treebank tagset (~36 tags) has two tags: ''NNS - noun, plural,'' and ''NPS - Proper noun, plural'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/CorpusWorkbench/CQP-HTMLDemo/PennTreebankTS.html/ |title=The Penn Treebank Tag Set |access-date=2010-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909223026/http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/projekte/CorpusWorkbench/CQP-HTMLDemo/PennTreebankTS.html |archive-date=2010-09-09 }}</ref> while the CLAWS 7 tagset (~149 tags)<ref name="CLAWS7">{{cite web|url=http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html|title=UCREL CLAWS7 Tagset|website=ucrel.lancs.ac.uk|access-date=15 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019174019/http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html|archive-date=19 October 2017}}</ref> uses six: ''NN2 - plural common noun, NNL2 - plural locative noun, NNO2 - numeral noun, plural, NNT2 - temporal noun, plural, NNU2 - plural unit of measurement, NP2 - plural proper noun.''