Editing 2 (section)

== As a word ==
''Two'' is most commonly a [[English determiners|determiner]] used with [[Grammatical number|plural]] countable nouns, as in ''two days'' or ''I'll take these two''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Huddleston |first1=Rodney D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1255524478 |title=A student's introduction to English grammar |last2=Pullum |first2=Geoffrey K. |last3=Reynolds |first3=Brett |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-316-51464-1 |edition=2nd |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |pages=117 |oclc= 1255524478|author-link=Rodney Huddleston |author-link2=Geoffrey K. Pullum}}</ref> ''Two'' is a [[English nouns|noun]] when it refers to the number two as in ''two plus two is four.''

The word ''two'' is derived from the [[Old English]] words {{lang|ang|twā}} ([[Grammatical gender|feminine]]), {{lang|ang|tū}} (neuter), and {{lang|ang|twēġen}} (masculine, which survives today in the form [[wikt:twain|twain]]).<ref name=OED>{{Cite OED|two, adj., n., and adv.}}</ref>