Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.
English can therefore be said to have a grammatical category of number.
Tense and aspect are grammatical categories in a large number of languages.
Voice is a grammatical category which defines the relationship between a verb and its subject.
Gender is probably the most puzzling and least well understood of the grammatical categories.
Gender is a basic grammatical category in the languages of the world.
Not all languages have number as a grammatical category.
However, not every language has a grammatical category of number.
The use of grammatical categories rather than individual words means that the number of different states is much smaller.
More specifically, a grammeme is a value of a grammatical category.
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