Form plurals: review

Key Notes:

🌟 Form Plurals: Review 🌟

What is a Plural?

A plural means more than one.

Singular → Plural

• One cat 🐱 → Two cats 🐱🐱
• One book 📖 → Many books 📚

Common Ways to Form Plurals

a) Just add -s

Most nouns → add -s

Examples:

• dog → dogs 🐶🐶
• pen → pens ✏️✏️
• apple → apples 🍎🍎

b) Add -es for words ending in s, x, z, ch, sh

Words ending in s, x, z, ch, sh → add -es

Examples:

• box → boxes 📦📦
• bus → buses 🚌🚌
• brush → brushes 🖌️🖌️
• church → churches ⛪⛪

c) Change y → ies

Words ending in consonant + y → change y → ies

Examples:

• baby → babies 👶👶
• city → cities 🏙️🏙️

Rule: If vowel + y, just add -s

• boy → boys 👦👦

d) Change f / fe → ves

Words ending in f or fe → change f/fe → ves

Examples:

• leaf → leaves 🍃🍃
• knife → knives 🔪🔪

Exception: roof → roofs 🏠🏠

e) Irregular plurals

Some nouns do not follow rules → completely different forms

Examples:

• man → men 👨👨
• woman → women 👩👩
• child → children 👶👦
• tooth → teeth 😁
• mouse → mice 🐭🐭

f) Plurals of uncountable nouns

Some nouns cannot be counted, so they don’t have plurals

Examples:

• water 💧, rice 🍚, sugar 🍬

Quick Tips ✨

• Check last letter(s) of the word before forming plural.
• Watch out for irregular plurals.
• Some nouns are same in singular and plural:
• sheep 🐑, deer 🦌, fish 🐟

Fun Practice 🌈

Fill in the blanks:

• One fox → Two ___ 🦊
• One city → Two ___ 🌆
• One leaf → Many ___ 🍃
• One child → Two ___ 👶