Singular & Plural - Kerala PSC Syllabus
Regular nouns
Most singular nouns form the plural by adding - s
- boat - boats
- bottle - bottles
- cat - cats
- cup - cups
- desk - desks
- house - houses
- pencil - pencils
- river - rivers
- sticker - stickers
- window - windows
A singular noun ending in s, x, z, ch, sh makes the plural by adding - es
- box - boxes
- bus - buses
- moss - mosses
- pitch - pitches
- watch - watches
- wish - wishes
A singular noun ending in f or fe makes the plural by adding - es
- leaf – leaves
- life – lives
- wife – wives
- wolf – wolves
A singular noun ending in a consonant and then y makes the plural by dropping the y and adding - ies
- baby - babies
- city - cities
- daisy - daisies
- penny - pennies
- spy - spies
Irregular nouns
There are some irregular noun plurals. The most common ones are listed below
- analysis - analyses
- cactus - cacti
- child - children
- crisis - crises
- criterion - criteria
- datum - data
- diagnosis - diagnoses
- elf - elves
- focus - foci
- foot - feet
- fungus - fungi
- goose - geese
- half - halves
- knife - knives
- leaf - leaves
- life - lives
- loaf - loaves
- man - men
- mouse - mice
- nucleus - nuclei
- oasis - oases
- person - people
- phenomenon - phenomena
- potato - potatoes
- syllabus - syllabi/syllabuses
- thesis - theses
- tomato - tomatoes
- tooth - teeth
- wife - wives
- woman - women
Some nouns have the same form in the singular and the plural
- aircraft - aircraft
- deer - deer
- fish - fish
- sheep - sheep
- species - species
- series - series
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