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1. Her hairs have fallen.
2. The leaves are fallen.
3. All religions are fallen.

Those three sentences are OK?

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1. Her hairs have fallen.

Usually we say "hair" to mean "all the hair on her head," so it is singular. And usually if someone's hair has gone away, we use the verb "fall out," not just "fall." So, if I understand your sentence correctly, you want to say: "All her hair has fallen out." What a shame!


2. The leaves are fallen.

The auxiliary verb for "fall" is "have," although you will find "be" as the auxiliary in some older texts. So, if you want to use "are fallen," just understand that it means that the leaves are on the ground, and a teacher might mark it wrong for using the wrong auxiliary verb. If you want to say that the leaves have left the tree, as the hair left the poor woman's head in no. 1, change it to: "The leaves have fallen."


3. All religions are fallen.

Same thing as with sentence 2, but a little trickier, because it is not clear what you mean by fallen religions. Do you mean that all religions have been overthrown? All religions have been disgraced? Anyway, if you want to use "fallen," then it is best to change it to: "All religions have fallen."
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