Some authorities say
that, when a numeral precedes the title, the name should always be varied;
as, the _two Miss Clarks_.
The forms, the _Misses Clarks_ and the _two Mrs. Clark_, have little
authority.]
+Direction+.--_Form the plural of the following compounds_:--
Miss Jones, Mr. Jones, General Lee, Dr. Brown, Master Green.
A title used with two or more different names is made plural; as, _Drs_.
Grimes and Steele, _Messrs_. Clark and Maynard.
+Direction+.--_Put each of the following expressions in its proper form_:--
General Lee and Jackson; Miss Mary, Julia, and Anna Scott; Mr, Green,
Stacy, & Co.
Letters, figures, and other characters add the apostrophe and _s_ to form
the plural; [Footnote: Some good writers form the plural of words named
merely as words, in the same way; as, the _if's_ and _and's_; but the (')
is here unnecessary.] as, _a's, 2's, ----'s_.
+Direction.+--_Form the plural of each of the following characters_:--S,
i, t, +, x, [Dagger], 9, 1, 1/4, [Yough], [Cyrillic: E].
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LESSON 114.
NUMBER FORMS--CONTINUED.
Some nouns have two plurals differing in meaning.
+Direction.+--_Learn these plurals and their meanings:_--
Brother,
brothers (by blood),
brethren (of the same society).
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