Study scope 2: Singular & Plural nouns

Std 1-3 study all except those in brackets specifying std 46

Std 4-6 ----study all
For the plural form of most nouns, add s.

bottle bottles
cup cups
pencil pencils
desk desks
sticker stickers
window windows
toe-toes
umbrella-umbrellas

For nouns that end in ch, x, s, or s sounds, add es.

box boxes
watch watches
bus buses
brush-brushes
dish-dishes
branch-branches
dress-dresses

For nouns ending in f or fe, change f to v and add es.

wolf wolves
wife wives
leaf leaves
life lives
shelf-shelves
thief-thieves

Some nouns have different plural forms.

child children
woman women
man men

mouse mice
goose geese

Some words end with y. You can form plural for these words replacing the y with I and
adding es to them.
Baby- babies
Puppy-puppies
Fairy-fairies
Fly-flies
Lily-lilies
Cherry-cherries
When a word ends with a vowel and y, just add s to form the plural.
Donkey-donkeys
Monkey-monkeys
Boy-boys
Day-days

Some nouns end with f, but you need not change anything, just add s to them
Chief-chiefs (std 4-6)
Dwarf-dwarfs (std 4-6)
Roof-roofs
Handkerchief-handkerchiefs

A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.

sheep sheep
deer deer
series series
species species (std 4-6 only)

List of words that do not go according to the rules

Goosegeese
Child-children
Mouse-mice
Tooth-teeth
Man-men
Footfeet

Countable nouns
Countable nouns are for things we can count using numbers. They have a singular and a
plural form. The singular form can use the determiner "a" or "an". If you want to ask
about the quantity of a countable noun, you ask "How many?" combined with the plural
countable noun.

Singular Plural
one dog two dogs
one horse two horses
one man two men
one idea two ideas
one shop two shops

Uncountable nouns
Uncountable nouns are for the things that we cannot count with numbers. They may be
the names for abstract ideas or qualities or for physical objects that are too small or too
amorphous to be counted (liquids, powders, gases, etc.). Uncountable nouns are used
with a singular verb. They usually do not have a plural form.
Examples

tea
sugar

salt
water
air
rice
knowledge (std 4-6)
beauty
anger
fear
love
money
water

****Std 4-6 only

Common uncountable nouns :
advice, accommodation, baggage, bread, cheese, equipment, furniture,
happiness, information, knowledge, literature, luggage, money, music,
news, pasta, progress, research, sadness, travel, water, work ...

Nouns with only a singular form or only a plural form

Some nouns have only a singular form or only a plural form. Nouns which have
only a singular form include the following: furniture, wheat, happiness, scenery,
news, information, luggage, bread, advice etc.