Plural nouns
One dog.Singular.
Two dogs.Plural.
A lot of dogs.Plural.
One book singular.
Many books Plural.
Bus
Toothbrush
Buses
WHY?
Toothbrushes
Exceptions
Most singular nouns are made plural by simply putting an -s at the end, like cat and cats.
There are exceptions. This means that in some cases, adding just an -s is not applicable.
Exception +es
Nouns that end in certain letters ("ch", "s", "sh", "ss", "x", and "z") need to have “-es” added at the end to become plural.
Watch
Watches
Matches
Match
Dishes
Dish
Eyelash
Eyelashes
Virus
Viruses
Dress
Dresses
Box
Boxes
Fox
Foxes
Waltz
Waltzes
More examples
Witch
Witches
Torches
Torch
Octopuses
Octopus
Glass
Glasses
Exception +ies or s
If the noun ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o or u) and ‘y’, we add ‘s’.
If the noun ends in consonant and ‘y’, we replace ‘y’ for ‘ies’.
Tray
Monkey
Key
Monkeys
Keys
Trays
Factory
Sky
Baby
Factories
Skies
Babies
Exception +ies or s
If the noun ends in O then we most of the time we add -s but there are some nouns that ends in O and we add-es.
Potato
Tomato
Hero
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Heroes
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Plural nouns
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Plural nouns
One dog.Singular.
Two dogs.Plural.
A lot of dogs.Plural.
One book singular.
Many books Plural.
Bus
Toothbrush
Buses
WHY?
Toothbrushes
Exceptions
Most singular nouns are made plural by simply putting an -s at the end, like cat and cats.
There are exceptions. This means that in some cases, adding just an -s is not applicable.
Exception +es
Nouns that end in certain letters ("ch", "s", "sh", "ss", "x", and "z") need to have “-es” added at the end to become plural.
Watch
Watches
Matches
Match
Dishes
Dish
Eyelash
Eyelashes
Virus
Viruses
Dress
Dresses
Box
Boxes
Fox
Foxes
Waltz
Waltzes
More examples
Witch
Witches
Torches
Torch
Octopuses
Octopus
Glass
Glasses
Exception +ies or s
If the noun ends in a vowel (a, e, i, o or u) and ‘y’, we add ‘s’. If the noun ends in consonant and ‘y’, we replace ‘y’ for ‘ies’.
Tray
Monkey
Key
Monkeys
Keys
Trays
Factory
Sky
Baby
Factories
Skies
Babies
Exception +ies or s
If the noun ends in O then we most of the time we add -s but there are some nouns that ends in O and we add-es.
Potato
Tomato
Hero
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Heroes
¡Migrant support!