Pluralization in English and Arabic, Similarities and Differences Paper written in a comparative study between Plural in both English and Arabic language

Abstract

The objective of this research is to explore plural indicators in both English and Arabic. The information has been collected is sorted to meet the extent of this research through contrastive analysis. It is clear that there are numerous considerable differences in patterns of plural nouns in relation to gender, number, kind, regular and irregular. Each language has its own unique system and its significant way of making plural. This paper consists of two parts. Part one deals with the idea of pluralization in English language; and the second part discusses it in Arabic language. I will also try in this paper to show the differences and similarities between regular and irregular plural in both languages. The approach of this research is comparative one that depends on gathering material and data from different sources and acknowledge reference books, comparing and classifying them and pressing them in a way that serves the aim of this paper.