SINGULAR AND PLURAL

SINGULAR AND PLURAL

Most singular nouns form the plural by adding -s.

Singular - Plural

boat - boats

house - houses

cat - cats

river - rivers

A singular noun ending in s, x, z, ch, sh 

makes the plural by adding-es.

Singular - Plural

bus - buses

wish - wishes

pitch - pitches

box - boxes

A singular noun ending in a consonant and then y makes the plural by dropping the y and adding-ies.

Singular -- Plural

penny - pennies

spy - spies

baby - babies

city - cities

daisy - daisies

When a word ends in –f or –fe, we change the f to v and add –es.

leaf → leaves

life → lives

calf → calves

Some nouns become plural when we change the vowel

singular - plural

man - men

foot - feet

tooth - teeth

goose - geese

'us' changes into 'i'

singular - plural

cactus - cacti

fungus - fungi

syllabus - syllabi

'is' changes into 'es'

singular - plural

hypothesis - hypotheses

oasis - oases

crisis - crises

'um' changes into 'a'

bacterium - bacteria

medium - media

curriculum - curricula

Add 's' to the first word in hyphenated word. 

passer-by --- passers-by

sister-in-law --- sisters-in-law

brother-in-law --- brothers-in-law 

runner-up --- runners-up

Some nouns have same form for singular and plural.

deer - deer

fish - fish

hair - hair

furniture - furniture

luggage - luggage

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Write the plural form of the word food

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Write the plural form of the word governor - general

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Write the plural form of the word radius

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Write the plural form of the word syllabus

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Write the plural form of the word datum

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Write the plural form of the word commander-in-chief

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Write the plural form of the word thesis

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Write the plural form of the word forum

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Write the plural form of the word cattle

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Write the plural form of the word genius