English Tutor Hub Nouns in the plural Regular
English. Tutor. Hub Nouns in the plural
Regular nouns in the plural Most regular nouns, simply add -s Singular flower road table map bridge and many more… Plural flowers roads tables maps bridges
Nouns ending in -ch, -s (or “-s sound), -x or -z: add -es Singular bunch class box crash fox grass bush and many more… plural bunches classes boxes crashes foxes’ grasses bushes
Nouns ending in -y Ending in a consonant +y: Change y to i and add -es Singular lady army beauty country family duty and many more… plural ladies armies beauties countries families duties Ending in a vowel +y: add -s Singular plural keys key guys turkeys turkey essays essay toy and many more… toys
ending in-f or -fe Replace the –f or –fe with –ves for these nouns: Singular plural calves calf life lives scarf scarves loaves loaf knife knives half halves For most of the nouns ending in -f or -fe just add -s: giraffes roofs and many more…
1. Nouns ending in –o (1) ending in a vowel + o: Add -s Singular radio zoo plural radios zoos
Nouns ending in –o (2) ending in a consonant + o: Irregular nouns add -es potatoes potato tomatoes tomato heroes hero echoes echo vetoes torpedoes embargoes buffaloes dominoes mosquitoes All the others: Some of them we must only add –s: the others we can choose to add –s OR -es We will add –s to all the others Singular casino photo solo volcano tornado plural casinos photos solos volcanos tornados And many more…
Foreign nouns Nouns ending in -us, change -us to -i; Singular plural fungi fungus nuclei nucleus alumni alumnus cacti radius radii
Nouns ending in –is; replace -is to -es; Singular axis analysis plural axes (Latin) diagnosis analyses (Greek) diagnoses (Greek) hypothesis hypotheses (Greek) thesis theses (Greek)
Nouns ending in -ix or -ex; replace with -ices; Singular plural appendix appendices (Latin) matrix matrices (Latin) index vertex indices (Latin) vertices (Latin)
Irregular nouns Singular mouse foot child man woman person tooth ox goose plural mice feet children men women people teeth oxen geese
Irregular nouns Some nouns are the same in the singular and plural. Singular sheep shrimp fish deer swine aircraft spacecraft plural sheep shrimp fish deer swine aircraft spacecraft
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