Make the plural from singulars
Make plurals by adding “s”
Examples are given below:
Singulars Plurals
Ball Balls
Boat
Boats
Bird Birds
Cat Cats
Car Cars
House Houses
Hen Hens
Gun Guns
Gate Gates
River Rivers
Mountain Mountains
If singular noun ending in s, sh, ch, x, o and z then we can make a plural by adding -es.
A few examples are given below:
Singular plurals
Bush Bushes
Box Boxes
Pitch Pitches
Class Classes
If a singular noun is ending in a consonant ‘y’ then
we make the plural by dropping ‘y’ and adding ‘-ies’.
Some examples are given below:
Singular Plural
Baby Babies
City Cities
Currency
Currencies
Spy Spies
Cry Cries
Here are some examples of irregular noun plural:
Singular Plural
Child Children
Tooth Teeth
Child Children
Man Men
Woman Women
Mouse Mice
Foot Feet
Knife Knives
Half Halves
Goose Geese
Potato Potatoes
Wife Wives
Loaf Loaves
Potato potatoes
Elf Elves
Leaf Leaves
Cactus Cacti
Fugues Fungi
Analysis Analyses
Diagnosis Diagnoses
Syllabus Syllabuses
Thesis Theses
Oasis Oases
Phenomenon Phenomena
If the noun has vowel ending sound like ‘y’ or ‘o’ do not have definite rules a few examples are given below:
Singular plural
Toy toys
Baby babies
Potato Potatoes
Memo Memos
Kidney Kidneys
Some singular and plural are written in the same form examples are given below:
Singular Plural
Fish
Fish
Deer
Deer
Sheep Sheep
Aircraft
Aircraft
Species
Species
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