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Plural of nouns - English lesson

PLURAL

General rule : add an "-s" to the word.

              snake (snakes)       dream (dreams)      bicycle (bicycles)

But there are exceptions:

1) Irregular :

  one child                 three children  one mouse                   two mice

Same problem for:

      man     woman     foot     tooth     goose     louse                 ox        person   

      men     women     feet     teeth     geese     lice                   oxen    people

2) Words ending in '-sh,-ch, -x, -s, -z '  : add   -es

   one box                  three boxes           one witch                     two witches

Same rule: dishes    kisses   buses   buzzes

3) Words ending in: '-f '/ '-fe ' : plural form =  -ves

  one leaf                  three leaves  (wolf)          three wolves

 knife, loaf, half, shelf, wife, calf, life, thief

BUT:   chiefs       safes       cliffs   

4) Words ending in : 'consonant + y' = plural : -ies

                             same rule:    lady,   story,   fly,   country,   spy

 two babies                             

BUT :    toys ,   boys ,   days ,   keys

5) Words ending in 'consonant + o' = plural :  -es

                            same rule:   mosquito,   hero,   veto; echo

 six tomatoes                           

BUT:    scenarios ,   videos ,   kangaroos

And these foreign words:   piano,   kimono,   photo,   dynamo   (-s )   

6) Same word for the singular and the plural forms:

          two sheep    one deer   three deer

 aircraft

7) Words ending in '-is' -> plural: '-es'

(oasis)  two oases                           

Same rule:   axis,   crisis,    thesis,   diagnosis

8) Other exceptions:

From foreign languages:

vertebra, vertebrae

stimulus, stimuli

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