| 1. Regular |
General rule: singular + S:
girl - girls
boy - boys
Nouns ending in -S, -SS, -SH, -CH, -X get -ES:
box - boxes
bus - buses
Some nouns ending in -O behind a consonant get -ES:
potato - potatoes
tomato - tomatoes
Nouns ending in -Y behind a consonant change -Y into -IES:
lady - ladies
baby - babies
Some nouns ending in -F or -FE change -F(E) into -VES:
knife - knives
wife - wives |
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| 2. Irregular: learn them by heart! |
man
foot
woman
tooth
goose
mouse
louse
child
penny |
men
feet
women
teeth
geese
mice
lice
children
pence |
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| 3. Always singular, always plural |
Some nouns are always plural:
clothes, jeans, trousers, shorts, people,
police, glasses, scissors, mathematics
Some nouns (abstract, materials, kinds of food) are always singular:
bread, tea, cheese, jam, soup, soap, snow, cotton,
wood, water, information, advice, knowledge, furniture
Some nouns have the same form for singular and plural:
Names of kind of fish: cod, herring, salmon, trout, ...
Names of some animals: deer, sheep, swine, ... |
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