From 3e20efa5625dd685e4989ff9f28833fd56cd962d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bjculkin <bjculkin@mix.wvu.edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:22:35 -0400
Subject: Work on inflection more

---
 src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java | 69 +++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java')

diff --git a/src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java b/src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java
index 8f839f4..5ba39fb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java
+++ b/src/main/java/bjc/inflexion/NounInflector.java
@@ -15,79 +15,22 @@
  */
 package bjc.inflexion;
 
-import static bjc.inflexion.InflectionUtils.*;
-
 /**
- * Inflect English nouns.
+ * Inflect singular nouns to plural nouns.
  * 
- * @author student
+ * @author EVE
  *
  */
 public class NounInflector {
 	/**
-	 * 
-	 */
-	public static String inflectNoun(String noun) {
-		if (isUserPlural(noun)) {
-			return userPlural(noun);
-		}
-
-		if (dontPluralize(noun))
-			return noun;
-
-		return "";
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Check if a given noun shouldn't be pluralized.
+	 * Inflect a singular noun to a plural form.
 	 * 
 	 * @param noun
-	 *            The noun to check.
+	 *                The singular noun.
 	 * 
-	 * @return Whether or not the noun has no plural.
+	 * @return The plural form of the noun.
 	 */
-	private static boolean dontPluralize(String noun) {
-		String[] suffixes = new String[] { "-fish", "-ois", "-sheep", "-deer", "-pox", "-[A-Z].*ese", "-itis", };
-
-		for (String sfx : suffixes) {
-			if (suffix(noun, sfx))
-				return true;
-		}
-
-		if (category(noun, "", ""))
-			return true;
-
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Inflect a noun according to a user-defined plural.
-	 * 
-	 * @param noun
-	 *            The noun to inflect.
-	 * 
-	 * @return The noun, inflected by the user form.
-	 */
-	private static String userPlural(String noun) {
-		/*
-		 * TODO Auto-generated method stub
-		 */
+	public static String inflectNoun(String noun) {
 		return null;
 	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Check if there is a user defined plural form for the given noun.
-	 * 
-	 * @param noun
-	 *            The noun to check.
-	 * 
-	 * @return Whether or not a user-defined plural exists for a particular
-	 *         noun.
-	 */
-	private static boolean isUserPlural(String noun) {
-		/*
-		 * TODO Auto-generated method stub
-		 */
-		return false;
-	}
 }
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