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Plurals

Most nouns are pluralized by adding -s.
Snake - Snakes	Ski - Skis

Words that end in -ch, x, s or s-like sounds, need an -es for the plural
Witch - Witches	Box - Boxes	Gas - Gases	Bus - Buses	Kiss - Kisses	Jones - Joneses

There are several nouns that have irregular plural forms. A lot of these nouns come from German
Child - Children	Woman - Women	Man - Men	Person - People	Goose - Geese
Mouse - Mice	Barracks - Barracks	Deer - Deer

There are nouns that maintain their Latin or Greek form in the plural.
Nucleus - Nuclei	Syllabus - Syllabi	Focus - Foci	Fungus - Fungi
Thesis - Theses	Crisis - Crises	Phenomenon - Phenomena	Index - Indices (indexes)
Criterion - Criteria	Cactus - Cacti (cactuses)	Appendix - Appendices (appendixes)

Nouns that appear plural but are singular
News	Gymnastics	Economics (can also be plural)	Mathematics	Statistics

Numerical expressions are usually singular
Fifty thousand dollars	One-half of the students
Most of the people	Fifty percent of the apples

Nouns that seem singular but are plural
Pants	Scissors	Glasses

Spelling
Words that end in -y, change the y to an i and add es
Baby - Babies	Gallery - Galleries	Reality - Realities
This rule does not apply to names: Kennedy - Kennedy's

Words that end in O
Sometimes add an -es -	Potato - Potatoes	Hero - Heroes
Sometimes don't -	Memo - Memos	Cello - Cellos
when a vowel precedes the O -	Stereo - Stereos

Plurals of words that end in -f or -fe usually change the f sound to a v sound and add s or -es
Knife - Knives	Leaf - Leaves	Hoof - Hooves	Self - Selves	Life - Lives	Elf - Elves
Exceptions:				Dwarf - Dwarfs	Roof - Roofs

Collective Nouns
Collective Nouns are singular when we think of them as groups and plural when we think of the individuals acting within the whole.
Audience Band Class	Family Flock Group	Kind Lot [The] Number	Committee Crowd Dozen	Heap Herd Jury	Public Staff Team

Example sentences
Singular	Plural
A dozen eggs is enough to make a cake.	A dozen of my friends are coming over.
The jury delivers its verdict.	The jury came in and took their seats.
Metallica is a good band	The Beatles were a good band
The number of students here is increasing	A number of people are coming over tonight

Sports teams are plural in America and singular in England
America	England
The Yankees are a good team	Manchester United is a good team

Apostrophes are used only with letters and words
A - A's	And - And's

Practice - Make the words plural
1) Child		7) Teaspoonful		13) Soliloquy
2) ATM		8) George		14) Potato
3) Woman		9) Kennedy		15) Elf
4) Son-in-law		10) Basis		16) Buffalo
5) Criterion		11) Fly
6) Also-ran		12) Ski