NOUNS AND THEIR NOUNS AND THEIR PLURAL FORMSPLURAL FORMS

Most nouns simply add S in the Most nouns simply add S in the plural as: DOGS STAMPS plural as: DOGS STAMPS

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There are irregular nouns as: child-children woman-women man – men foot – feet person – people goose – geese mouse

– mice deer - deer

Child - children

Many nouns that end in F or FE in the plural change F to V and then add ES as: HALF – WOLF – KNIFE – LIFE – HOOF…Exceptions:

DWARF = DWARFS ROOF =ROOFS

wolf

More rules to remember• Nouns that end in –S –SS –CH –X add ES in the

plural as: BUSES – CLASSES – CRASHES – MATCHES – BOXES

• Nouns that end in a consonant + Y change to IES in the plural as: CITY – CITIES BABY – BABIES BODY – BODIES

• But if the noun ends in a vowel + Y the Y doesn´t change as: MONKEYS DAYS

LADY – LADIES BUTTERFLY - BUTTERFLIES

ladybutterfly

monkey

CLASS - CLASSES

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• Words that end in O create special problems as: POTATOES – HEROES, however MEMO – MEMOS and for words where another vowel comes before the O, we add just S as: STEREOS

• Nouns that end with US usually maintain their latin or greek form in the plural changing the US to I as: CACTUS – CACTI

NUCLEUS – NUCLEI FOCUS – FOCISYLLABUS – SYLLABI

FUNGUS – FUNGI

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• Nouns that end with IS change IS to ES as: ANALYSIS – ANALYSES CRISIS – CRISES

THESIS – THESES• Nouns that end with ON change ON to A as:

PHENOMENON – PHENOMENA CRITERION – CRITERIA

MORE TO REMEMBER

• A handful of nouns appear to be plural in form but take a singular verb as: The news is bad – Gymnastics is fun to watch – Economics-mathematics-statistics is said to be difficult

• Numeral expressions are usually singular, but can be plural if the individuals within a numerical group are acting individually as: Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money

• When a noun names the title of something or is a word being used as a word, it is singular whether the word takes a singular form or not as: Faces is the name of the new restaurant - Postcards is my favorite novel

Write their names and plurals