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 | | Dog is to dogs just as cat is to cats, or encyclopedia is to encyclopedias; dog is to dog-catcher as dish is to dishwasher. |
 | | In other words, the syntactic rules of English care about the difference between dog and dogs, because it determines which form of the verb must be used; but in contrast, no syntactic rule of English cares about the difference between dog and dog-catcher, or dependent and independent. |
 | | For example, it's easy to think that in dogs, we have the root dog, followed by the plural morpheme -s; the same sort of analysis is also straightforward for oxen, with the stem ox, and a suppletive plural morpheme -en. |
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