English Grammar, Singulars/ Plurals Worksheet #2

Singulars/ Plurals Worksheet

Singular nouns refer to a single person, thing, place, or idea. Plural nouns mean more than one person, thing, place, or idea. For most regular nouns, it is sufficient to add the letter -s to the end of this name to make them plural.

Examples:

Cat → cats
Rose → roses
Seed → seeds
House→ houses

∗ Nouns are made plural by adding “-s, -es, -ies” suffixes according to which sound they end with.

- Words ending with “s, z, x, sh, ch” become plural by taking the suffix -es.

Examples:

Box → boxes
Wish → wishes
Bus → buses
Peach → peaches

There are always exceptions. The words tomato, and potato are made plural by taking -es together with a few more words: tomatoes, potatoes, heroes, echoes, and torpedoes.

- While the words ending with the consonant “y” are made plural, the letter “y” at the end is converted to “i” and they become plural by taking the suffix -ies.

Examples:

Candy→ candies
Fairy → fairies
Baby → babies
City → cities
- For words with “f” before the last letter, “f” is converted to the letter “v” and -s is added to the end.

Examples:

Life→ candies
Wife → fairies
Knife → babies

∗ For those whose last letter is “f”, the letter “f” is converted to the letter “v” and -es is added to the end.

Examples:

Loaf→ loaves
Leaf → leaves
Elf → elves
Half → halves

∗ In words ending with a consonant “s” and the letter before the last letter is “i”, the letter “i” is converted to the letter “e”. In short, we don’t add “-es” to the end, but we convert the last two letters to “-es”.

Examples:

Diagnosis → diagnoses
Thesis → theses
Analysis → analyses
Crisis → crises
Oasis→ oases

Irregular Plurals

∗ Irregular nouns mean nouns that are not plural with an -s suffix, but whose plural form is a completely different word. Irregular plurals need to be memorized from lists or acquired over time.