Singular and Plural Nouns

Rule 1 most singular nouns end with s

Singular Plural Singular Plural

Bird Birds Fork Forks
Broom Brooms Game Games
Desk Desks Nest Nests
Doll Dolls Pen Pens
Egg Eggs Photo Photos
Flower Flowers Shirt shirts
Forming Plurals Singular Plural
If the noun ends in S, Z, Ch, SH, O, SS, or X we add ES Potato Potatoes
Pass Passes
Tax Taxes
Coach Coaches
Words that have to do with media are exceptions to the above Radio Radios
rule Photo Photos
If the noun ends in F or Fe, change to V and add es Knife Knives
Wife Wives
Thief Thieves
shelf Shelves
If the noun ends is Y preceded by a consonant change the Y to I Fly Flies
and add ES (ies) Baby Babies
Country Countries
City Cities
The exception to the above rule is when there is a vowel in front Boy Boys
of the Y. In this case just add S Toy Toys
Ray Rays
Some words have irregular plural forms Child Children
Foot Feet
Tooth Teeth
Man Men
Datum Data
A list of collective nouns items and food
Collective nouns people
Collective nouns animals
A little drill- Underline the collective nouns in
the following.
• 1) The hockey team arrived at the rink.
• 2) Mr. Brown’s class enjoys science.
• 3) My friend’s family likes camping.
• 4) I go camping with my Scouts’ troop.
• 5) The group entered the gym together.
• 6) A school of fish swam by us.
• 7) The flight of birds was flying south for winter.
• 8) How many kittens are in this litter?
Drill on nouns
• 1) Many (company / is) ___________ ___________ trying to
rebuild their facilities after the flood.
• 2) My (parent / was) ___________ ___________ on vacation
last week.
• 3) We have so many (cat) ___________ outside and they
always (eat) ___________ our leftovers.
• 4) (Boy) ___________ often (not know) ___________ any
better.
• 5) The worker (union / is talking) ___________ ____________
with the senators right now.
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More drills
• 6) My (cousin / was) ____________ _____________ playing
football in that field just an hour ago.
• 7) They (is) ____________ keeping them in (chain)
__________.
• 8) Without (go) ____________ into too many (detail)
__________, I have to say it wasn’t very good.
• 9) I love my (dog) ___________, but they sometimes (is)
____________ a pain in my side.
• 10) Look at all the (cloud / float) __________ ____________ in
the sky.