What are plural nouns?
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child children
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A noun can be singular, naming just one thing, or plural,
naming more than one thing.
The way to make a noun plural usually depends on the ending of the singular noun.
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To form the plural of most nouns, add s.horse car hill rose shoe
horses cars hills roses shoes
If the noun ends in s, sh, ch or x, add es.
buses bushes churches foxes passes
bus bush church fox pass
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Form the plurals of these nouns.
circus
radio
window
bone
itch
class
year
kaleidoscope
toolbox
wish
es es
s s
s es
es es
s s
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If the noun ends in a consonant plus y, change the y to ies.
baby army spy worrybabies armies spies worries
For most nouns that end in f or fe, change f to v and add es.
leaf life half loaf leaves lives halves loaves
For a small group of nouns that end in o, add es.tomato echo hero
tomatoes echoes heroes
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Form the plurals of these nouns.body
ruby
deputy
therapy
jury
wife
wolf
knife
superhero
bodies wives
deputies knives
therapies superheroes
juries
rubies wolves
medium chateau vertebra bacteriummedia chateaux vertebrae bacteria
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English nouns that have come from other languages, such as Latin, Greek or French, often form plurals the same way they
do in their original language.
Some nouns are always plurals, whether there is one or many of them.
trousersoffspring
scissors cutlery
crockery deer
pants salmon
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Just to make it interesting, there are nouns that break the rules and
nouns that don’t follow any rule! Do you know the plurals of these nouns?
radio
woman
reef
ox
louse
axis
proof
foot
radios lice
reefs proofs
oxen feet
women axes
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• A noun is a naming word. A plural noun names more than one thing.
• Plural nouns are formed in different ways, often depending on the ending of the singular noun.
• Some nouns are both singular and plural (e.g. sheep) and some are only plural (e.g. trousers).
• In the following sentence, the plural nouns are red. The true heroes of centuries past were men and women without names.
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