Learn how to talk about one thing or many things. Practice making nouns plural with -s, -es, and -ies endings to describe quantities and groups.
Learn how to talk about one thing (singular) and more than one thing (plural).
Most nouns form the plural by adding -s. Some need -es. Some change y to -ies.
Rules
Add -s: most nouns. Add -es: nouns ending in -s, -x, -ch, -sh. Change y → ies: nouns ending in consonant + y (city→cities, but day→days).
Singular means one thing. Plural means more than one thing. We change the word to show if we mean one or more.
one book
one apple
one student
one house
two books
three apples
many students
four houses
I am at the market. I see one apple and two bananas.
There are many people here today.
I buy three tomatoes for my salad.
A child drops a box of cherries.
For most words: Add -s to make it plural.
✓ one book → two books
✓ one cat → three cats
✓ one car → many cars
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For most English words, just add -s to make them plural.
book → books
pen → pens
table → tables
cat → cats
dog → dogs
bird → birds
student → students
teacher → teachers
friend → friends
Make these words plural:
1. one car → two __________
2. one house → three __________
3. one pencil → many __________
✓ 1. two cars
✓ 2. three houses
✓ 3. many pencils
Ready to test your Singular and Plural Nouns knowledge?
Challenge yourself with fill-in-the-blank exercises
Some words have special rules for making plurals.
"I need new glasses to read."
baby → babies
city → cities
party → parties
boy → boys (just add -s)
day → days (just add -s)
toy → toys (just add -s)
"They have two babies."
"We ate tomatoes with our dinner."
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Practice with multiple choice questions
Remember these simple patterns.
bus → buses
box → boxes
watch → watches
Words with these endings need -es
❌ two boxs (wrong)
❌ three babys (wrong)
❌ many dishs (wrong)
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Some words don't follow the normal rules.
These words change completely in plural form.
• child → children
• man → men
• woman → women
Some words stay the same in singular and plural.
• sheep → sheep
• fish → fish
• deer → deer
Master Singular and Plural Nouns sentence building!
Drag and drop words to form correct sentences
❌ I have two boxs.
✓ I have two boxes.
❌ She has three babys.
✓ She has three babies.
❌ There are many dishs on the table.
✓ There are many dishes on the table.
❌ The citys are beautiful.
✓ The cities are beautiful.
❌ I like tomatos.
✓ I like tomatoes.
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She bought two dresses yesterday.
He ate three bananas for lunch.
She has 5 pencils but only 1 pen.
WOW! They have seen the movie seven times!
They have two babies. They are twins.
I need to buy some new glasses.
There are three boxes in the kitchen.
The children are playing with their toys.
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