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Singular and Plural Nouns
Today, I picked up a few thing at the stores, and then I picked up my childs at school. Just a regular day in my lifes, like many other daies!
As the problems in that sentence demonstrate, it's important to pay attention to whether the nouns we use are singular or plural and to know how to make nouns plural the right way.
So, let us understand the concept first
1)'es' at end
Singular nouns ending in 's', 'ss', 'sh', 'ch', 'x', or 'z' need an 'es' at the end to become plural.
Example:- crutch, a box, and a blintz, which would become crutches, boxes, and blintzes.
(Note that some singular nouns ending in 's' or 'z' require that you double the 's' or 'z' before adding an 'es'. example quiz-quizzes.)
2) 'is' with es
Most nouns ending in 'is', drop the 'is' and add '-es'.
For example:-
crisis - crises | hypothesis - hypotheses | oasis - oases
3) 'ves' at end
Some nouns ending in 'f' or in 'fe' require that you change the 'f' to a 'v' and then add an 'es' at the end to make them plural.
Example:-leaf-leaves, wolf-wolves
4) 'ies' at end
Nouns that end in 'y' often require that you change the 'y' to an 'i', and then add an 'es' at the end to make them plural.
example- baby-babies
5) y and vowels
With a noun that ends with 'y', if there's a vowel ('a, e, i, o, u') right before the 'y', then you just add an 's' at the end to make the noun plural.
example- boy-boys, toy-toys
6) s
Most of the words not cover above usually ends with s
example- bag-bags, dog-dogs
Mistakes We usually do in Singular and Plural are as follows
They are said to be exempted words, as they follow different rule,but we often forget these words
Singular Plural
A)Exemption of f rule
1)belief - beliefs
2)brief - briefs
3)chef - chefs
4)proof - proofs
5)roof - roofs
6)cafe - cafes
7)safe - safes
B)Uncommon noun
8)child - children
9)person - people
10)man - men
11)woman - women
12)foot - feet
13)goose - geese
14)mouse - mice
15)tooth - teeth
16)ox - oxen
17)index - indices or indexes
C)Remain Same
18)aircraft - aircraft
19)fish - fish
20)headquarters - headquarters
21)sheep - sheep
22)species - species
D)Uncountable nouns on the other hand have no plural form and take a singular verb (is / was ...).
For example:-
advice
information
luggage
news
There is a lot of luggage on the plane, but a piece of luggage has gone missing.
E)Some nouns (especially those associated with two things) exist only in the plural form and take a plural verb (are / were...).
For example:-
cattle
scissors
trousers
tweezers
congratulations
pyjamas
Have you seen my scissors? They were on my desk.
Singular and Plural Nouns
Today, I picked up a few thing at the stores, and then I picked up my childs at school. Just a regular day in my lifes, like many other daies!
As the problems in that sentence demonstrate, it's important to pay attention to whether the nouns we use are singular or plural and to know how to make nouns plural the right way.
So, let us understand the concept first
1)'es' at end
Singular nouns ending in 's', 'ss', 'sh', 'ch', 'x', or 'z' need an 'es' at the end to become plural.
Example:- crutch, a box, and a blintz, which would become crutches, boxes, and blintzes.
(Note that some singular nouns ending in 's' or 'z' require that you double the 's' or 'z' before adding an 'es'. example quiz-quizzes.)
2) 'is' with es
Most nouns ending in 'is', drop the 'is' and add '-es'.
For example:-
crisis - crises | hypothesis - hypotheses | oasis - oases
3) 'ves' at end
Some nouns ending in 'f' or in 'fe' require that you change the 'f' to a 'v' and then add an 'es' at the end to make them plural.
Example:-leaf-leaves, wolf-wolves
4) 'ies' at end
Nouns that end in 'y' often require that you change the 'y' to an 'i', and then add an 'es' at the end to make them plural.
example- baby-babies
5) y and vowels
With a noun that ends with 'y', if there's a vowel ('a, e, i, o, u') right before the 'y', then you just add an 's' at the end to make the noun plural.
example- boy-boys, toy-toys
6) s
Most of the words not cover above usually ends with s
example- bag-bags, dog-dogs
Mistakes We usually do in Singular and Plural are as follows
They are said to be exempted words, as they follow different rule,but we often forget these words
Singular Plural
A)Exemption of f rule
1)belief - beliefs
2)brief - briefs
3)chef - chefs
4)proof - proofs
5)roof - roofs
6)cafe - cafes
7)safe - safes
B)Uncommon noun
8)child - children
9)person - people
10)man - men
11)woman - women
12)foot - feet
13)goose - geese
14)mouse - mice
15)tooth - teeth
16)ox - oxen
17)index - indices or indexes
C)Remain Same
18)aircraft - aircraft
19)fish - fish
20)headquarters - headquarters
21)sheep - sheep
22)species - species
D)Uncountable nouns on the other hand have no plural form and take a singular verb (is / was ...).
For example:-
advice
information
luggage
news
There is a lot of luggage on the plane, but a piece of luggage has gone missing.
E)Some nouns (especially those associated with two things) exist only in the plural form and take a plural verb (are / were...).
For example:-
cattle
scissors
trousers
tweezers
congratulations
pyjamas
Have you seen my scissors? They were on my desk.
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