{"id":538,"date":"2016-02-20T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=538"},"modified":"2016-02-20T01:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:10:07","slug":"singular-and-plural-nouns-including-irregular-plural-nouns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=538","title":{"rendered":"SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS INCLUDING IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=513\">English Grammar<\/a> &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/?page_id=520\">Nouns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>REGULAR NOUNS<\/p>\n<p>Most singular nouns form the plural by adding <strong>-s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<p>Singular, Plural<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>boat, boats<\/li>\n<li>house, houses<\/li>\n<li>cat, cats<\/li>\n<li>river, rivers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A singular noun ending in <strong>s, x ,z, ch, sh<\/strong> makes the plural by adding <strong>-es<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<p>Singular, Plural<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bus, buses<\/li>\n<li>wish, wishes<\/li>\n<li>pitch, pitches<\/li>\n<li>box, boxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A singular noun ending in a consonant and then<strong> y<\/strong> makes the plural by dropping the y and adding <strong>-ies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<p>Singular, Plural<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>penny, pennies<\/li>\n<li>spy, spies<\/li>\n<li>baby, babies<\/li>\n<li>city, cities<\/li>\n<li>daisy, daisies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IRREGULAR NOUNS<\/p>\n<p>There are some irregular noun plurals. The most common ones are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<p>Singular, Plural<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>woman, women<\/li>\n<li>man, men<\/li>\n<li>child, children<\/li>\n<li>tooth, teeth<\/li>\n<li>foot, feet<\/li>\n<li>person, people<\/li>\n<li>leaf, leaves<\/li>\n<li>mouse, mice<\/li>\n<li>goose, geese<\/li>\n<li>half, halves<\/li>\n<li>knife, knives<\/li>\n<li>wife, wives<\/li>\n<li>life, lives<\/li>\n<li>elf, elves<\/li>\n<li>loaf, loaves<\/li>\n<li>potato, potatoes<\/li>\n<li>tomato, tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>cactus, cacti<\/li>\n<li>focus, foci<\/li>\n<li>fungus, fungi<\/li>\n<li>nucleus, nuclei<\/li>\n<li>syllabus, syllabi\/syllabuses<\/li>\n<li>analysis, analyses<\/li>\n<li>diagnosis, diagnoses<\/li>\n<li>oasis, oases<\/li>\n<li>thesis, theses<\/li>\n<li>crisis, crises<\/li>\n<li>phenomenon, phenomena<\/li>\n<li>criterion, criteria<\/li>\n<li>datum, data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some nouns have the same form in the singular and the plural<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<p>Singular, Plural<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0sheep, sheep<\/li>\n<li>fish, fish<\/li>\n<li>deer, deer<\/li>\n<li>species, species<\/li>\n<li>aircraft, aircraft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>IRREGULAR VERB\/NOUN AGREEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Some nouns have a plural form but take a singular verb.<\/p>\n<p>Plural nouns used with a singular verb, Sentence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>news, The news is at 6:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>athletics, Athletics is good for young people.<\/li>\n<li>linguistics, Linguistics is the study of language.<\/li>\n<li>darts, Darts is a popular game in England.<\/li>\n<li>billiards, Billiards is played all over the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some nouns have a fixed and take a plural verb. They are not used in the singular, or they have different meaning in the singular. Nouns like this include: <em>trousers, jeans, glasses, savings, thanks, step, stairs, customs, congratulations, tropics, wages, spectacles, outskirts, goods, wits<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Plural noun with plural verb, Sentence<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>trousers, My trousers are too tight.<\/li>\n<li>jeans, Her jeans are black<\/li>\n<li>glasses, Those glasses are his.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Grammar &gt; Nouns REGULAR NOUNS Most singular nouns form the plural by adding -s. EXAMPLES Singular, Plural boat, boats house, houses cat, cats river, rivers A singular noun ending in s, x ,z,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.teachenglishworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}