Plural nouns name more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
I spent two years in America.
The house has three bedrooms.
There are many stars in the sky.
Most singular nouns change to plural by adding “s” to the end of them.
bird/birds, tree/trees, pen/pens, house/houses, idea/ideas
A singular noun ends in s, ss, x, ch, sh, or z; add es to make it plural.
bus/buses, boss/bosses, switch/switches, dish/dishes
A singular noun ends in a vowel, and then -y add an “s” to make it plural.
Boy/boys, day/days, key/keys, way/ways, donkey/donkeys,
A singular noun ends in a consonant, and then -y change y to i and add es to make it plural.
lady/ladies, canary/canaries, city/cities, battery/batteries
Some nouns don’t follow a specific rule, but the word changes form.
man/men, wife/wives life/lives foot/feet, mouse/mice, ox/oxen.
Some nouns have the same spelling as their singular form.
advice, education, aircraft, wheat, sugar fish, sheep, shrimp, deer
