Editing Grammatical number (section)

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In [[linguistics]], '''grammatical number''' is a [[Feature (linguistics)|feature]] of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb [[agreement (linguistics)|agreement]] that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").<ref>{{Citation |title=Dictionary of Linguistic Terms |publisher=SIL |contribution=What is Number? |url=http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsNumber.htm}}.</ref> English and many other languages present number categories of singular or [[plural]]. Some languages also have a [[Dual (grammatical number)|dual]], [[#Trial|trial]] and [[#Paucal|paucal]] number or other arrangements.

The word "number" is also used in linguistics to describe the distinction between certain grammatical aspects that indicate the number of times an event occurs, such as the [[semelfactive]] aspect, the iterative aspect, etc. For that use of the term, see "[[Grammatical aspect]]".