Form and use plurals: review

Key Notes:

🔹 Regular Plurals

• Most nouns add -s to form plurals.
  👉 Example:
  📘 book → 📚 books
  🏠 house → 🏠🏠 houses

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🔹 Plurals with -es

• Nouns ending in -s, -sh, -ch, -x, -z take -es.
  👉 Example:
  🍴 dish → dishes
  🚌 bus → buses

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🔹 Change -y to -ies

• If a noun ends in consonant + y, change y → i and add -es.
  👉 Example:
  👶 baby → babies
  🎉 party → parties
• BUT if vowel + y, just add -s.
  👉 Example:
  🦋 toy → toys
  📖 essay → essays

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🔹 Change -f / -fe to -ves

👉 Example:
🍃 leaf → leaves
🔪 knife → knives

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🔹 Irregular Plurals ⚡

Some words change completely.
👉 Example:
👨 man → men
👩 woman → women
🦶 foot → feet
🦷 tooth → teeth
🐭 mouse → mice

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🔹 Same Form for Singular & Plural

Some nouns don’t change.
👉 Example:
🐑 sheep → sheep
🐟 fish → fish
🦌 deer → deer

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🔹 Foreign Plurals 🌍

Words from other languages keep special plural forms.
👉 Example:
📖 criterion → criteria
🎭 phenomenon → phenomena
📚 cactus → cacti

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🔹 Using Plurals Correctly ✍️

• Match plural nouns with plural verbs.
  👉 Example:
  ✅ The books are on the table.
  ❌ The books is on the table.
• Use in context to show quantity.
  👉 Example:
  1 apple 🍎 → 5 apples 🍎🍎🍎🍎🍎

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🌟 Quick Tips 🌟
✔ Always check endings carefully.
✔ Remember irregular plurals 🧠.
✔ Use context clues to decide singular/plural forms.