PLURAL

NOUNS
ENGLISH I – ESEN
MG. DANY CHARIARSE
ALVARADO
A singular noun names one person, place,
thing, or idea.
• One cat, one store, one item

A plural noun names two or more persons,

places, things, or ideas.
• Two cats, four stores, fifteen items
• Most nouns take -s
to form their plural.

book = books
Student= students
Singular Plural “s”

teacher teachers

street streets

pencil pencils

book books

elephant elephants
girl girls
• Nouns ending in -s, -o, -
ss, ch,-x or -sh take -es.

bus = buses
box = boxes
watch = watches
Singular Plural

gas gases

wax waxes

waltz waltzes

dish dishes

church churches
fox foxes
For nouns ending with a consonant and
y, change the y to i and add es. For
nouns ending with a vowel and y, add s.

country countries
family families
Singular Plural

sky skies

army armies

penny pennies

boy boys

alley alleys
If the noun ends in a
vowel + y, it takes-s.

boy boys
toy toys
Nouns ending in a consonant plus -y, make the plural by
changing -y to -ies:

cherry cherr ies

y
If the noun ends in -f or
-fe, it takes -ves.

wife wives

half halves
Singular Plural

belief beliefs

roof roofs

loaf loaves

life lives

knife knives
 Change f to v
Ends with –fe then
Add –s

knife kni ves

fe
Irregular Plural Nouns
Forming the
Noun type Examples
plural
Change f to v knife - knives
Ends with -fe then life - lives
Add -es wife - wives

Change f to v half - halves

Ends with -f then wolf - wolves
Add -es loaf - loaves
potato - potatoes
tomato -
Ends with -o Add -es tomatoes
volcano -
volcanoes
 Irregular Plural Nouns
cactus - cacti
ends with -us Change -us to -i nucleus - nuclei
focus - foci
analysis - analyses
ends with -is Change -is to -es crisis - crises
thesis - theses
phenomenon -
ends with -on Change -on to -a phenomena
criterion - criteria
Change the vowel man - men
or foot - feet
Change the word child - children
ALL KINDS
or person - people
Add a different tooth - teeth
ending mouse - mice
sheep
Singular and plural
Unchanging deer
are the same
fish (sometimes)
 These are a little more tricky . . .
For nouns that end with o, add s or es. (Again, you would
need to memorize the spellings of such words or look
them up in a dictionary to double-check.)
—One trick to remember: if it has to do with sound (“music”),
just add s.—Ex: cello. piano, radio

Singular Plural
cello cellos
piano pianos
radio radios
zoo zoos
potato / tomato potatoes / tomatoes
Some nouns are irregulars.
Some nouns are the same in both singular and
plural form

sheep sheep
deer deer
A few nouns have only plural forms.

Plural
scissors

jeans

savings

dues
A few nouns that end with s look
plural but are considered singular.

Singular
measles

news

economics

dues
We use There is with countable nouns
in singular and uncountable nouns.

We use There are with countable nouns

in plural.
 There is
some water
on the floor.
There isn’t
any water
on the floor.
 There are
some books on
the table.
There aren’t
any books on
the table.
 INTERROGATIVE FORM
Is there
There any water ?
some
is a cat/some
Yes, there is
No, there isn’t
Are there
There any books ?
are some
Yes, there are
No, there aren’t
Yes, there Is there
is. any water
on the floor?
 Click on the right option

_______ some students here.

There is There are

There isn’t There aren’t
Is there Are there
 Click on the right option

_________ any students here.

There is There are

There isn’t There aren’t
Is there Are there
BYE BYE!