BASIC ENGLISH GRAMMER NOUNS: SINGULAR AND PLURAL

NOUNS: SINGULAR AND PLURAL

WE LEARN THE BASIC DIFFERENT TYPES  OF THE NOUNS. NOUNS TELL ABOUT THE NUMBER OF THINGS THEY NAME.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUN?

SINGLE MEANS JUST ONE THING, PERSON, PLACE. A NOUN NAMES ANY ONE THING, PERSON OR PLACE CALLED SINGULAR NOUN. 
FOR EXAMPLE – A BALLON, A BOY, AN ELEPHANT, GLASS

PLURAL MEANS MORE THAN ONE. A NOUN NAMES MORE THAN ONE THINGS, PERSONS, AND PLACES CALLED PLURAL NOUN.
FOR EXAMPLE – RIVERS, BODIES, BENCHES, TOYS, GIRLS.

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF CHANGING SINGULAR NOUN TO PLURAL NOUN?

  •  WE CAN ADD ‘-S’ TO MOST NOUNS TO FORM PLURALS.

 EXAMPLES:
SINGULAR FORM               PLURAL FORM
CLOCK                                   CLOCKS
BOOK                                     BOOKS
FRIEND                                 FRIENDS
PENCIL                                 PENCILS 
FLOWER                               FLOWERS
QUILL                                   QUILLS   
  •  WE CAN ADD ‘-ES’ TO SOME NOUNS THAT END IN ‘O’, ‘S’, ‘SS’, ‘CH’, AND ‘X’ TO FORM THEIR PLURALS.
EXAMPLES:
SINGULAR FORM                PLURAL FORM
ZERO                                       ZEROS
HERO                                      HEROS
POTATO                                 POTATOES
GLASS                                    GLASSES
INCH                                      INCHES

BUT PIANO, PHOTO, AND RADIO BECOME PIANOS, PHOTOS, AND RADIOS RESPECTIVELY.

  • NOUNS THAT END IN ‘-Y’. IN THEIR ALSO TWO TYPES OF FORM 
1 ) IF THE LETTER BEFORE ‘Y’ IS A CONSONANT, CHANGE ‘Y’ TO ‘-I’ AND ADD ‘-ES’.
EXAMPLES:
BABY                                BABIES
CITY                                  CITIES

2 ) IF THE LETTER BEFORE ‘Y’ IS A VOWEL, JUST ADD ‘-S’.
EXAMPLES:
KEY                                    KEYS
BOY                                    BOYS

  • WE CAN FORM PLURALS OF NOUNS ENDING IN ‘-F’ OR ‘-FE ‘  BY CHANGING THE ‘-F’ OR ‘-FE’ TO ‘-VES’.
EXAMPLES:
WOLF                                WOLVES
LIFE                                  LIVES
  • WE CAN FORM PLURALS OF SOME NOUNS BY CHANGING ONE OR MORE VOWELS IN THEM.

EXAMPLES:

MAN                              MEN
TOOTH                          TEETH
FOOT                              FEET

  • THE PLURAL OF SOME NOUNS ARE THE SAME THAT OF THE SINGULAR.
EXAMPLES:
SHEEP                         SHEEP
DEER                            DEER
HAIR                            HAIR

IMPORTANT NOTE: 
THE FOLLOWING WORDS CHANGE IN THE PLURAL AS GIVEN.

SINGULAR                             PLURAL
IS/AM                                     ARE
WAS                                        WERE
HAS                                         HAVE
THIS                                        THESE
THAT                                      THOSE

NOW WE HAVE TO REMEMBER JUST THESE THINGS TO FORM SINGULAR TO PLURAL AS PER THE LETTERS.
  1. JUST ADD ‘-S’
  2. ADD ‘-ES’ TO ‘‘O’ , ‘S’, ‘SS’, ‘CH’, AND ‘X’.
  3. CHANGE ‘Y’ TO ‘-I’ OR ‘-ES’ OR ‘S’.
  4. CHANGE THE ‘-F’ OR ‘-FE’ TO ‘-VES’.
  5. CHANGE ONE OR MORE VOWELS.
  6. SOME REMAINS SAME.
NOW LET’S DO SOME EXERCISE TO LEARN MORE.
WRITE PLURAL FORM :

                           

FILL PLURAL FORM IN THE BLANKS


SEARCH PLURAL FORM OF THE NOUNS

REWRITE THE SENTENCES BY CHANGING THE NOUNS INTO THEIR PLURAL FORMS.

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