Hey!
Me again.
A short but oh so sweet lesson for this week – how do you make a noun plural?
Here are the ‘rules’ as always there are exceptions which are sent to test us:
Simple nouns you just need to add an ‘-s’ (e.g. one bat and two bats).
When a noun ends with ‘s’, ‘x’, ‘ch’ or ‘sh’, you just add ‘-es’ (e.g., one church, two churches).
If a noun ends with consonant and a ‘y’, the ‘y’ is replaced with an ‘i’ and you add ‘-es’ (e.g. one story, two stories).
When your noun ends with ‘-o’, you add ‘-es’ (e.g., one tomato, two tomatoes)
When a noun ends with ‘-is’, change the ‘-is’ to ‘-es’ (e.g. one crisis, two crises)
If a noun ends with ‘-f’, change ‘-f’ to ‘-v’ and add ‘-es’ (e.g., one calf, two calves)
When your noun ends with ‘-fe’, change ‘-f’ to ‘-v’ and add ‘-s’ (e.g. one leaf, two leaves)
When a noun ends with ‘-us’, where you change ‘-us’ to ‘-i’ (e.g. one stimulus, two stimuli)
If a noun contains ‘-oo’, change ‘-oo’ to ‘-ee’ (e.g., one tooth, two teeth)
When your noun ends with ‘-on’, where you replace ‘-on’ with ‘-a’ (e.g. one automaton, two automata)
Finally, you may have a noun that is happy as it is (e.g. fish, deer, moose)
Try telling these rules to:
Booth / Booths
Root / Roots
Monkey / Monkeys
Sunday / Sundays
Good luck everyone!
G.D.
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