Singular to Plural
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Some words have the same spelling in both singular and plural forms.
- Advice = singular
- Advice = plural - Baggage = singular - Baggage = plural |
- Series = singular
- Series= plural - Information - Information |
- Sheep = singular
- Sheep = plural - Aircraft = singular - Aircraft = plural |
However - Fish = singular and plural, if the fish are of the same species
Fish = fishes if referring to more than one species of fish
Fish = fishes if referring to more than one species of fish
To make most words plural, add an 's'.
- Keys
- Socks
- Bananas
- Boats
Add 'es' to words ending in s, x, z, ch, sh - or 'o' when preceded by a consonant.
- Address = addresses
- Branch = branches - Bus = buses - Potato = potatoes |
- Beach = beaches
- Brush = brushes - Buzz = buzzes - Tomato = tomatoes |
- Six = sixes
- Fox = foxes - Glass = glasses |
Words that end in an 'f' always change the 'f' to a 'v' to become plural:
- Knife = knives
- Life = lives
- Half = halves
- Wife = wives
- Reindeer = reindeer or
reindeers - Shrimp = shrimp or shrimps - Whale = whales or whales |
- Trout = trout or trouts
- Roe = roe or roes - Mackerel = mackerel or mackerels |
- Buck = buck or bucks
- Boar = boar or boars - Quail = quail or quails |
- Buffalo = buffaloes
- Echo = echoes - Mosquito = mosquitoes |
- Potato = potatoes
- Tomato = tomatoes - Mango = mangoes |
- Volcano = volcanoes
- Torpedo = torpedoes - Veto = vetoes |
- City = cities
- Country = countries - Sky = skies |
- Cry = cries
- Cherry = cherries - Spy = spies |
- Story = stories
- Theory = theories - Strawberry = strawberries |
- Calf = calves
- Knife = knives - Leaf = leaves |
- Half = halves
- Thief = thieves - Wolf = wolves |
- Shelf = shelves
- Wife = wives - Life = lives |
- Bay = bays
- Boy = boys - Guy = guys |
- Donkey = donkeys
- Monkey = monkeys - Ray = rays |
- Journey = journeys
- Chimney = chimneys - Toy = toys |
When 'y' is preceded by a consonant, change the 'y' to an 'i' and add 'es'.
- Party = parties
- Story = stories
- Try = Tries
- Army = armies
- Bunny = bunnies
- Belief - beliefs
- Bluff = bluffs - Safe = safes |
- Giraffe = giraffes
- Cliff = cliffs - Chef = chefs |
- Handcuff = handcuffs
- Reef = reefs - Chief = Chiefs |
- Criterion = criteria
- Dormouse = dormice - Mouse = mice |
- Tooth = teeth
- Foot = feet - Goose = geese |
- Louse = lice
- Woman = women - Man = men |
- Oasis = oases
- Parenthesis = parentheses - Thesis = theses |
- Basis = bases
- Analysis = analyses - Crisis = crises |
- Ellipsis = ellipses
- Diagnosis = diagnoses - Axis = axes |
- Cupful = cupfuls
- Go-between = go-betweens - Brother-in-law = brothers-in- law |
- Man-of-war = men-of-war
- Passerby = passersby - Mix-up = mix-ups |
- Handful = handfuls
- Bystander = bystanders - Mouthful = mouthfuls |