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baby                            babies
                                          lady                           ladies
                                         Candy                          candies
                                         Story                           stories

                                         army                            armies
                                         pony                            ponies

                                        country                        countries



                 The nouns which end with ‘-y’ and has a vowel before it, then we add only
                   ‘–s’ to form the plural.


                                         SINGULAR                    PLURAL
                                             day                       days

                                            valley                    valleys
                                             Key                       keys
                                             toy                       toys

                                             tray                      trays
                                              ray                      rays
                                           journey                   journeys



                 The nouns which end with ‘–f’ or ‘–fe’, will form plural by changing ‘–f’ or
                   ‘–fe’ into ‘-v’ and by adding ‘–es’ to it.


                                         SINGULAR                        PLURAL
                                            thief                         thieves
                                            knife                         knives

                                             leaf                         leaves
                                            wolf                          wolves
                                             life                          Lives
                                            shelf                         Shelves

                                            wife                          Wives
                                             half                         Halves


                 There are certain nouns which end with ‘–f’ or ‘–fe’ but the plural is
                   formed by simply adding ‘-s’ to them.


                                      SINGULAR                           PLURAL
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