What Should Be the Plural of This Word?

In the English Language, there is great importance of Singular and Plural Nouns. A word that refers to more than one thing or person is known as a plural noun. The following are some of the examples:

To make the plural of the noun, we should end the plural ending –s. For example:

1. Car-cars
2. school- schools
3. bag -bags

It does not end just here. There are a lot of exceptions to this rule.

The nouns ending with s, x, z, ch, and sh should be pluralized by adding –es to make the plural. For example:

1. bus -buses
2. branch- branches
3. glass -glasses
4. box -boxes

The nouns ending with ‘f’ are made plural by adding –ves and the pronunciation of es is /z/. For example:

1. wolf - wolves
2. knife - knives
3. wife - wives

The ‘f’ ending nouns have some of the following exceptions:

1. roof - roofs
2. chief - chiefs
3. cuff - cuffs

In nouns ending with o, –es is added to form the plural. For example:

1. cargo - cargoes
2. tomato - tomatoes
3. zero - zeroes
4. tornado - tornadoes

The o ending nouns also have some exceptions. They are:

1. zoo - zoos
2. piano - pianos
3. photo - photos
4. zero - zeros

The following nouns have irregular plurals:

1. woman - women
2. child - children
3. foot - feet
4. cactus - cacti
5. thesis - theses
6. criterion - criteria
7. oasis - oases
8. datum - data

There are some nouns that remain the same even in their plural form. They are the following:

1. aircraft - aircraft
2. species - species
3. deer - deer
4. sheep - sheep

Then there are also some nouns that are always in the plural form. Some of them are:

1. scissors
2. stairs
3. jeans
4. pyjamas
5. scales
6. headphones
7. shorts

The following nouns are always singular:

1. politics
2. phonetics
3. news
4. mathematics

The English Language contains very vast content and plural nouns are just a small part of it and they are very important for our day to day life.