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“I found a body with no head.” (singular)

“I found a body with no legs.” (plural)

As opposed to: “I found a body with no heads.” (Weird alien concept!)

“I found a body with no leg.” (Ambiguous meaning)

“I found a body with no left leg.” (Zero of “left leg” is not plural, while “zero of leg” is plural.)

Consider, Alien Crimescene show: I found a body. Someone had chopped off the leftmost head. The remaining heads stared at me with their 47 dead eyes.

Oh trigger warning, gore, btw.