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Documented IE-0021 on no automatic plural synonyms
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## Duplicates {PM_TooManyDuplicates}
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^^{duplicates <-- multiple copies of things} ^^{things+kind+: creating: multiple identical things with counts} ^^{defining: things: multiply with counts} ^^{use options: catalogue: |maximum things understood at once} ^^{maximum things understood at once+useopt+}
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^^{duplicates <-- multiple copies of things} ^^{things+kind+: creating: multiple identical things with counts} ^^{defining: things: multiply with counts} ^^{use options: catalogue: |maximum things understood at once} ^^{use options: catalogue: |no automatic plural synonyms} ^^{maximum things understood at once+useopt+} ^^{no automatic plural synonyms+useopt+}
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Although it is only useful to a limited extent, we can make any number of copies of something:
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4) Finally: numbers up to twelve may be written out in words in the source text, but larger ones must be written as numerals. So `twelve` or `12`, but `13` only.
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Whenever a kind of object is created, Inform allows the pluralised name of the kind to be used to refer to such objects in typed commands. That's why creating `A coin is a kind of thing.` enables commands like ``TAKE THREE COINS`` to work: Inform takes the name `coin` and pluralises it as ``COINS``.
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But some authors prefer not to have this feature, and to enable all plural nouns in commands by hand. For those authors, this use option is provided:
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Use no automatic plural synonyms.
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Then, for example, in the following story:
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Use no automatic plural synonyms.
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A badger is a kind of animal. Understand "brocks" as a badger.
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An acorn is a kind of thing.
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The Night Garden is a room. Two badgers and six acorns are in the Night Garden.
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the player could type ``GET BADGERS`` (do _not_ try this in real life) but not ``GET ACORNS``.
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### See Also
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- [Plural assertions] for how to change Inform's guesses about plurals of nouns.
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## Assemblies and body parts {PM_AssemblyLoop} {PM_AssemblyRegress} {PM_ComplexEvery}
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^^{assemblies} ^^{components: for kinds} ^^{things+kind+: parts of} ^^{incorporation+rel+} ^^{incorporation+relcat+} ^^{body parts} ^^{|every: creating assemblies} ^^{defining: things: using relations} ^^{things+kind+: creating: using relations} ^^{relations: creating things in relation to}
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