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Direction: What is the plural of Maximum?

  1. A
    Maxima
  2. B
    Maxims
  3. C
    Maximus
  4. D
    Maxis

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In accordance with standard linguistic borrowing rules from classical Latin morphology, neuter nouns ending with the suffix package '-um' switch to an '-a' suffix structure to denote their true plural state. Hence, the plural of 'maximum' is 'maxima'.

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Direction: What is the plural of Maximum?
A
Maxima
B
Maxims
C
Maximus
D
Maxis

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