Plural Nouns

    Good afternoon guys! Today  we are going to talk about plural nouns. Here, there is the list of SpellingCity's plural nouns practice.

Most nouns make their plurals by simply adding –s to the end (e.g. cat/cats, book/books, journey/journeys). Some do change their endings, though, the main types of noun that do this are:

1. Words ending in a consonant + "y": "y" changes to "i" and add "es".

party / parties (fiesta/s)

city / cities (ciudad/es)

2. Words ending in a vowel + "and" add an "s".

boy / boys (chico/s)

toy / toys (juguete/s)

3. Words ending in "s", "ss", "sh", "ch", "x", "or" add "is".

bus / buses (bus/es)

glass / glasses (copa/s)

brush / brushes (cepillo/s)

watch / watches (reloj/es)

box / boxes (caja/s)

tomato / tomatoes (tomate/s)

 There’s one exception to this rule. If the -ch ending is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound, you add -s rather than -es:

singular	plural
stomach	stomachs
epoch	epochs

4. Words ending in "f" or "fe": change the "f" or "faith" to "see."

leaf / leaves (hoja/s)

wife / wives (esposa/s)

Many nouns are pluralized in an irregular manner. There are two cases:

1. When the plural and singular do not change.

fish (peces o pescados)        sheep (ovejas)

2. When the plural varies irregularly. Therefore, there is no rule which must be followed and learned the irregular shapes of each.

Singular	Significado	Plural	Significado
man	hombre	men	hombres
woman	mujer	women	mujeres
child	niño	children	niños
person	persona	people	personas/gente
tooth	diente	teeth	dientes
foot	pie	feet	pies
mouse	ratón	mice	ratones