Some nouns are used only in the plural form:
Scissors, Glasses/Spectacles, Shorts, Clothes, Shoes
Some nouns are used only in the singular form:
Furniture, Advice, Scenery, Aircraft
Some nouns appear to be singular but they actually denote plural number:
Cattle, People, Police, Etc.
Some nouns appear to be plural but they actually denote singular number:
Physics, Politics, Gymnastics, etc.
Material nouns are used only in singular
Abstract nouns are used only in singular
Collective nouns are usually used in singular:
Flock, Bunch, Army Proper nouns that are names of any particular person, place, or thing are always singular in number:
Rohan, Russia, Mount Everest
Most nouns form their plurals by adding an ‘-s’ to them:
Apple – Apples
Lamp – Lamps
Plant – Plants
Desk – Desks
The nouns ending in ‘-s’, ‘-sh’, ‘-ss’, ‘-ch’, ‘-x’, form their plurals by adding ‘-es’ to them:
Bus – Buses
Bench – Benches
Class – Classes
Fox – Foxes
Bush – Bushes
Nouns ending in ‘-f’ and ‘-fe’ form their plurals by changing ‘-f’ and ‘-fe’ into ‘-v’ and adding an ‘-es’ to them:
Wife – Wives
Calf – Calves
Wolf – Wolves
Knife – Knives
However, there are a few exceptions like Chief – Chiefs and Dwarf – Dwarfs.
Some nouns form their plural by changing the vowels:
Mouse – Mice
Man – Men
Foot – Feet
Goose – Geese
Some nouns form plurals by adding ‘-en’ to them:
Child – Children
Ox – Oxen
Some nouns have same singular and plural forms:
Deer – Deer
Sheep – Sheep
Plural forms of compound nouns are derived by adding ‘-s’ or ‘-es’ to the key word:
Maid-Servant – Maid-Servants
Plurals of letters, figures, signs, symbols, and abbreviations are made by adding an ‘-s’ to them:
MBA – MBAs
MLA – MLAs
Nouns ending in ‘-y’ form their plurals in two ways; by adding only an ‘-s’ in case the word ending in ‘-y’ has a vowel before ‘-y’:
Boy – Boys
Donkey – Donkeys
Or, by dropping the word ‘-y’ and adding ‘-ies’ where ‘-y’ is preceded by a consonant:
Army – Armies
Baby – Babies
Story – Stories
Jealousy - Jealousies
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