Unknown Male: No, but there is a plural, it's 'fishes'.įemale with short dark hair: No, there isn't.įemale with dark hair wearing brown cardigan: What about sheep?įemale with short dark hair: Yeah, you don't say sheeps.įemale with dark hair wearing brown cardigan: One sheep, two sheep. Well, here you can see we're using the word 'values' and the word 'behaviours', there's more than one value, there's more than one behaviour.įemale with short dark hair: If you've got one fish, and you can have three fish, it's still fish. Male Council employee wearing blue and grey jacket: Sometimes you can just put an S on the end, and it might look like a plural and it's not, like when it's Tom's birthday.ĭoesn't mean there's more than one Tom, it just means it's Tom, it's his birthday. If the word ends in s, x, z, ch, or sh, the plural is usually formed by adding es. Now, the plurals here are the 'values' and the 'behaviours'.įemale with short red hair: There's also instances where the spelling of the word completely changes, such as man to men, woman to women. For example: the plural of cat is cats the plural of flower is flowers, and the plural of computer is computers. Irregular nouns are those that do not use the regular plural ending. Nouns that end in y, preceded by a vowel, are treated like normal nouns: just add s. Nouns that end in y, preceded by a consonant, are made plural by replacing the y with ies. The list below includes only a small sampling. Male Council employee wearing blue and grey jacket: Sometimes you can see them on posters, like this Trust Oldham posters here. This is because when you add an s to the end of these words, you have to add an. Nouns that end in s, x, z, ch, or sh are made plural by adding es. Male with short grey hair wearing black suit: The word 'cow', to make it a plural it's an S, to 'cows'. PANTIESThe word underwear is a mass noun that takes singular agreement. Male Council employee wearing blue and grey jacket: In my job with the council I come across plurals every day in our working lives. Of all the grammar concepts we have, plural seems to be one of the most. Some nouns have a plural form but take a singular verb. For example, if the singular noun ends in s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, you need. Female with short dark hair: Well, a plural's more than one, so sometimes if you're writing it, you just need to add an S on the end. A singular noun ending in s, x, z, ch, sh makes the plural by adding-es. However, not all singular nouns can be made plural by adding an -s.