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PLURALS IN ENGLISH

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Created on March 5, 2020

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PLURALS

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PLURALS

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Index

Regular plurals

Video

Irregular plural

The most common irregular plurals.

-S,-Z,-CH,-X

Practice

-O,-SH,-SS, -TCH

Rules & examples

There are many different rules regarding pluralization depending on what letter a noun ends in. Irregular nouns do not follow plural noun rules, so they must be memorized or looked up in the dictionary.

01 REGULAR PLURALS

Apple

Most singular nouns are made plural by simply putting an -s at the end.

Apples

Examples

  • Book-books
  • Camera-cameras
  • Eagle-eagles

Add -es to nouns ending in

-z

-s

circus-circuses

doze-dozes

-ch

-x

box-boxes

beach-beaches

Add -es to nouns ending in

-o

-sh

potato-potatoes

brush-brushes

-tch

-ss

kiss-kisses

match-matches

02 Irregularplurals

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that do not become plural by adding -s or -es, as most nouns in the English language do. You’re probably familiar with many of these already. There are hundreds of irregular plural nouns, and in truth, you must memorize them through reading and speaking.

The most common irregular plurals

Nouns ending in -f and -fe To make a plural of a word ending in -f, change the f to a v and add es. Similarly, if a word ends in -fe, change the f to a v and add an s. The result for both types is a plural that ends in -ves. This spelling arose because of the difficulty of pronouncing f and s together in English (an attempt to do this will produce a v sound).

Nouns that change vowels

Many English words become plural by changing their vowels, such as oo to ee or an to en.

Singular Plural foot feet tooth teeth goose. geese man men woman women

Irregular Nouns That Change Substantially

Singular Plural mouse mice die dice ox oxen child children person people penny pence (in British usage)

If you don't know the meaning, look for it in the diccionary!

Irregular Nouns That Do Not Change At All When Made Plural

Singular/ Plural (no change)sheep fish deer moose swine buffalo shrimp trout

Vídeo

PRACTICE

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