You add ‘s’ to form the plural of most nouns:
E.G. book — books table — tables
You add ‘es’ to nouns ending in ‘ss’, ‘s’, ‘ch’, ‘sh’, or ‘x’:
E.G. glass — glasses bus — buses
tax — taxes church — churches dish — dishes
You add ‘es’ to nouns ending in ‘o’:
E.G. tomato — tomatoes
But some nouns ending in ‘o’ take ‘s’ only for the plural.
E.G. piano — pianos photo — photos
Nouns ending in a consonant and ‘y’ in the singular end in ‘ies’ in the plural:
E.G. baby — babies
Nouns ending in a vowel and ‘y’ add an ‘s’:
E.G. day — days
EXERCISE 1
Below is a picture of the inside of a shop which sells lots of different things. Complete the labels on the shelves with the correct plural form -s, -es, or -ies:
| BOOK | KEY | WATCH | CAR | BOX | TOY |
| LORRY | ORANGE | FLAG | DIARY | TIE | SOCK |
Practice saying these words.
EXERCISE 2 | Irregular plurals
Write the singular of these nouns:
| SINGULAR | |||||
| PLURAL | women | children | feet | mice | men |
EXERCISE 3
Now use the correct form to fill the gaps in the following:
1. This team is for m_______ only.
2. She’s got six c__________.
3. I put on some socks because my f_________ were cold.
4. I saw a strange w__________ in the garden.
5. Jerry is a m___________ and Tom likes to chase m_____________.
EXERCISE 4
Find the PLURAL of the following nouns in the wordsearch square below:
Leaf person watch match foot potato
