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    This document outlines rules for forming the plural form of nouns in English: 1) For most nouns, simply add "-s" to make them plural (e.g. "bottle" becomes "bottles"). 2) Nouns ending in "ch", "x", or "s" add "-es" (e.g. "box" becomes "boxes"). 3) Nouns ending in "f" or "fe" change the "f" to "v" and add "-es" (e.g. "wolf" becomes "wolves"). 4) Some nouns have irregular plural forms, such as "child/children" and "man/men

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    This document outlines rules for forming the plural form of nouns in English: 1) For most nouns, simply add "-s" to make them plural (e.g. "bottle" becomes "bottles"). 2) Nouns ending in "ch", "x", or "s" add "-es" (e.g. "box" becomes "boxes"). 3) Nouns ending in "f" or "fe" change the "f" to "v" and add "-es" (e.g. "wolf" becomes "wolves"). 4) Some nouns have irregular plural forms, such as "child/children" and "man/men

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    This document outlines rules for forming the plural form of nouns in English: 1) For most nouns, simply add "-s" to make them plural (e.g. "bottle" becomes "bottles"). 2) Nouns ending in "ch", "x", or "s" add "-es" (e.g. "box" becomes "boxes"). 3) Nouns ending in "f" or "fe" change the "f" to "v" and add "-es" (e.g. "wolf" becomes "wolves"). 4) Some nouns have irregular plural forms, such as "child/children" and "man/men

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    SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS

    These are formulas for how to use the plural form of noun.
    A. For the plural form of most nouns, simply add ’-s’
    Example :
    Bottle Bottles
    Cup Cups
    Pencil Pencils
    Desk Desks

    B. For nouns that end in ch, X, S, add ‘ –es ’


    Example
    Box Boxes
    Watch Watches
    Class Classes

    C. For Nouns ending in F or fe, f to v add ‘ –es ‘


    Examples ;
    Wolf Wolves
    Wife Wives
    Leaf Leaves
    Life Lives

    D. Some nouns are exclusive and have different plural forms


    Examples ;
    Child Children
    Woman Women
    Man Men
    Mouse Mice

    E. Nouns ending in ‘Y’ procede by a consonant, the plural is formed by Changing ‘Y’ to ‘I’
    and adding ‘-es’
    Examples ;
    Lady Ladies
    Duty Duties
    Exception
    Day days
    Monkey monkeys

    F. Nounsending in ‘o’ preceded by consonant, the plural is made by adding ‘-es’


    Examples ;
    Hero Heroes
    Potato Potatoes
    G. Few nouns have the same singular and plural forms
    Examples ;
    Sheep sheep
    Deer deer
    Series series

    H. Some nouns keep their foreign language for plural form


    Example ;
    Crisis Crises
    Analysis analyses
    Alumnus alumnus
    Criterion criteria
    Phenomenon phenomena

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