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Singular and Plural Nouns - Regular and Irregular

The document discusses singular and plural nouns, noting that it is important to pay attention to whether nouns are singular or plural when constructing sentences. There are two types of nouns - regular nouns, which become plural by adding "-s" or "-es", and irregular nouns, which do not follow simple rules for making plurals and often change spelling. The document provides examples of rules for making both regular and irregular nouns plural.

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Singular and Plural Nouns - Regular and Irregular

The document discusses singular and plural nouns, noting that it is important to pay attention to whether nouns are singular or plural when constructing sentences. There are two types of nouns - regular nouns, which become plural by adding "-s" or "-es", and irregular nouns, which do not follow simple rules for making plurals and often change spelling. The document provides examples of rules for making both regular and irregular nouns plural.

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Singular and Plural Nouns — Regular

and Irregular
In constructing sentences, it is important to pay attention to whether the nouns we use
are singular or plural. It is also essential that we know how to pluralize nouns the right
way.

What do you think of the words in the two columns?


How did the labels change? What did you add or change in spelling?

The words you used in the previous activity are examples of concrete nouns. Concrete
nouns and some abstract nouns can be singular or plural. A singular noun names one
person, place, or thing. A plural noun, on the other hand, names more than one person,
place or thing. There are two types of nouns based on how they become plural: regular
and irregular nouns.

1. Regular nouns become plural nouns by adding -s to the end of the word. If the singular
noun already ends in s, ss, x, ch, or sh, write its plural form by adding –es to the end.
Always remember that in most cases, if a noun ends in a vowel followed by y, add -s to
make them plural.

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2. Irregular nouns are nouns that do not follow the simple rules of adding -s or -es. They
usually change their spelling. If the singular noun ends in y, just change the y to i and
add –es. If the noun ends with f, it usually forms its plural by changing f to v and adding
-es.

Some irregular nouns have the same singular and plural forms.

Some irregular nouns are always singular. They have no plural form. Usually, you cannot
count these nouns. The singular form is used to refer to the entire quantity rather than
one, two, or more countable items.

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