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Forming Plurals                                                             Singular                          Plural



     Rule 1                                                                      House                             houses

     Most nouns take ‘s’ at the end of                                           Camera                            Cameras


     their singular forms.                                                       Bird                              Birds


                                                                                 Egg                               Eggs


     Rule 2                                                                      Gas                               Gases


     If the noun ends in s, ch, sh, x, z, we  Bench                                                                Benches

     add ‘es’.                                                                   Brush                             Brushes


                                                                                 Fox                               Foxes

                                                                                 Quiz                              Quizzes




     Rule 3                                                                      Army                              Armies


     If the noun ends with ‘y’ preceded                                          Body                              Bodies


     by a consonant, drop ‘y’ and add                                            Copy                              Copies

     ‘ies’.                                                                      Country                           Countries
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