NOUNS (SINGULAR & PLURAL

BY RACHEL

NOUNS (SINGULAR & PLURAL)

•Most nouns may be written in the singular (one) or the plural (more than one) form.•Most nouns follow rules for making the plural

form.

MOST NOUNS JUST ADD S

•One tree

•Two trees

MOST NOUNS ENDING IN F OR FE TAKE VES

•One leaf

•Two leaves

NOUNS ENDING IN SH, S OR X ADD ES

•One bush

•Two bushes

NOUNS ENDING IN A CONSONANT +Y TAKE IES

•One daisy

•Two daisies

SOME NOTES

• Words ending in ‘s’, ‘x’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’ and ‘o’ take es.

• Example: kiss-kisses, fox-foxes, church-churches, lash-lashes, hero-heroes

• Be careful for some exceptions with words ending in ‘o’.

• If a word is a musical instrument, it ends in ’oo’ or it is a shortened word add only ‘s’

• Examples: piano-pianos, igloo-igloos, photo-photos

• Words ending in a consonant ‘y’ change the ‘y’ and the ‘i’ and take ‘es

• Example: baby-babies

• Words ending in a vowel and ‘y’ take ‘s’ • Example: boy-boys

• Words ending in ‘f/fe’ change the ‘f/fe’ into ‘v’ and take ‘es’.

• Example: loaf-loaves• wife-wives

• Be careful for some exceptions.

• Example: chief-chiefs

• Most of the remaining words end in ‘s’.

• Example: flap-flaps• ship-ships

• Watch out for irregular plural.

• Example: sheep-sheep• radius-radii• man-men