Rule of making plural is very easy. We simply add “s” to a noun to make it plural. This works for many words. But there are more words which ends differently at last and adding “s” to these words is not same.
Rule Number 1: By adding “s”
e.g.
Rule Number 1: By adding “s”
e.g.
SINGULAR | PLURAL |
Girl | Girls |
Tree | Trees |
Rule Number 2:If noun ends with the letters sh, ch, ss or x then “es” is added to make it plural.
SINGULAR | PLURAL |
Brush | Brushes |
Match | Matches |
Dress | Dresses |
Box | Boxes |
e.g.
Rule Number 3: Some nouns ends in “y” and before “y” there comes a consonant. In this case y is changed to i and es is added. Or it can be said that y is omitted and ies is added.
SINGULAR | PLURAL |
Lady | Ladies |
Baby | Babies |
Puppy | Puppies |
Pony | Ponies |
toy |
There is no consonant just before y in ‘toy’ , therefore this rule will not be apply here. And hence correct plural of toy is toys and not toies.
Rule Number 4 : Some noun ends in f. Then we simply replace f by ves. See the table.
SINGULAR | PLURAL |
Leaf | leaves |
Loaf | Loaves |
Calf | calves |
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