Plural Nouns

Plural Nouns

 

Plural Noun Spelling

In English is we are talking about more than one noun we must refer to it in it's plural form. This is simply done by adding "s" onto the end of any countable noun. This is the case most of the time with the exception of the situations listed below:
We make a noun plural by adding "es" when the singular noun ends in the following letters:    -s/-ss/-sh/-ch/-x/-o
examples:
church/churches
bus/buses
wish/wishes
box/boxes
kiss/kisses
potato/potatoes
When a noun ends in a consonant + "y" (-by/-ly/-sy, etc.) we make the noun plural by deleting the "y" and adding "ies"
examples:
baby/babies
family/families
secretary/secretaries
story/stories

Plural Noun Spelling 

Some nouns have a completely different word when we make them plural, these nouns are called irregular plural nouns. Refer to the chart below for a complete list of these nouns.

SINGULAR	PLURAL		SINGULAR	PLURAL
child	children		man	men
die	dice		mouse	mice
foot	feet		person	people
fish	fish		tooth	teeth
goose	geese		woman	women