Page 1 - Lesson Note 6

Nouns starting with
SINGULAR
consonant.
Names one (a phone )
person, place,
animal or thing. Nouns starting with vowel

(an apple)

Plural noun formed by adding -s

(girls,cats)
SINGULAR

Nouns ending with -s,-x,-ss,-sh and -ch, add -es
AND
(boxes, dresses)

PLURAL Nouns ending with -y, remove -y add -ies

NOUN (babies, cities)
Nouns that ends with vowel + y, we add ‘s’

(boys,toys)

Nouns ending in f, fe, , we drop f, fe and
add- ves

PLURAL (Knives, calves)

Names more than one Noun that ends in consonant + o , we add –es
person, place, animal (Tomatoes)
or thing.

Noun that ends in vowel + o, we add -s
(Radios)

Irregular nouns

They do not follow any rules
(women, feet).

Some nouns do not change in
plural.
(deer,fish)