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There’s a lot going on in this picture from Coachella. There are girls, laughs, smiles, drinks, hair, hats, sunglasses, clothes andjewelry. All of these are plural forms of nouns.
Here are rules for forming plural nouns in English:
Regular nouns in English are formed by adding “s”.
songs
texts
Nouns that end in a vowel + y also take the letter “s”.
boys
days
Nouns that end in ch, x, s, z or s sounds are plural by adding an “es”:
kisses
watches
For nouns ending in f or fe, change “f” to “v” and add “es”:
lives
selves
Nouns ending in vowels like y or o have different plurals and rules:
potatoes
Some words have the same singular and plural forms:
fish
music
And some words are just irregular:
children
women
teeth
There are a lot of rules, huh?
Let’s practice forming English plurals. Fill in the blank with the plural form of the noun:
