This document provides information about regular and irregular plural nouns in English. It explains that regular plural nouns are formed by adding "s", "es", or "ies" to the singular form. It gives examples like boys, dresses, wishes. Nouns ending in consonant+"y" drop the "y" and add "ies". Irregular plural nouns do not follow these patterns and instead change form, like babies, cities, feet. The document aims to teach students the different ways to make nouns plural in English.
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Second lessons in english language for class five
1. SECOND LESSONS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR
CLASS FIVE
Grammar
Our topic is supposedto be IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS but cant talk of
that when we do not know what REGULAR PLURAL NOUNS are.
What is Regular Plural Noun? A regular plural noun is a word that shows there
is more than one person, place, animal, thing or idea. In other words, when you
talk of more than one of the things mentioned above, you are using plural
nouns. A regular plural noun can be indicated by simply adding an s,es
or ies to the end of the word.
For example: nouns that need only sto get its plural.
Nouns ending with s, ss, sh, ch, or x.
Nouns ending with the above letters, we add es to get its plural.
Singular Plural
Boy Boys
Girl Girls
Book Books
Pen Pens
Pencil Pencils
Robot Robots
Student Students
Tree Trees
Singular Plural
Actress Actresses
Dress Dresses
Wish Wishes
Watch Watches
Branch Branches
Bus Buses
Box Boxes
2. Nouns ending with a consonant+ y (plus y)
With these nouns, we add ies to get their plurals
IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS
Irregular plurals are nouns which do not follow the norms of the regular plural.
Some either remain the same in the singular and plural or they change in
another form. For example:
Singular Plural
Family Families
Lady Ladies
Baby Babies
City Cities
Country Countries
Story Stories
Hobby Hobbies
Lorry Lorries
Singular Plural
Tooth Teeth
Foot Feet
Woman Women
Man Men
Person People
Child Children
Sheep Sheep
Fish Fish
Leaf Leaves
Ox Oxen
Series Series
Mouse Mice