PLURAL NOUNS

Most nouns including those ending in a silent "e" will be cjanged to their pplural form by adding "s".

Book      -   Books

Brake     -   Brakes

Pencil     -   Pencils

Person    -  Persons

Actor       -   Actors

Runner   -   Runners

Nouns ending in "ch", "tch", "sh", "x", "z", "zz", "s", "ss", are made plural by adding "es"

Gas  -  Gases

Box  -  Boxes

Buzz  -  Buzzes

Lunch  -  Lunches

Watch  -  Watches  

Kiss  -  Kisses

Nouns ending in "y" precedeed by a consonant are made plural by changing the "y" for an "i" and adding "es".

Baby  -  Babies

City  -  Cities

Story  -  Stories

Democracy  -  Democracies

Proper nouns ending in a final "y" are made plural by adding "s"

Kennedy  -  Kennedys

Zeivy  -  Zeivys

Levy  -  Levys

Bromley  -  Bromleys

When  a "y" is preceded by a vowel (ay, ey, oy, uy)

Day  -  Days

Key  -  Keys

Guy  -  Guys

Boy  -  Boys 

Some nouns ending in "f" or "fe" are made plural by changing the "f" for a "v" and then add "es".

Life  -  Lives

Leaf  -  Leaves

Knife  -  Knives

Wife  -  Wives

Shelf  -  Shelves

Wolf  -  Wolves

Some nouns ending in "f" or "fe" only add "s".

Gulf  -  Gulfs

Safe  -  Safes

Roof  -  Roofs

Chief  - Chiefs

Some Nouns that end in "o" preceded by a consonant are made plural by adding "es". 

Echo  - Echoes

Hero  -  Heroes

Mosquito  -  Mosquitoes

Embargo  -  Embargoes

Other noun ending in "o" proceded by a consonant are made plural by adding "s".

Casino  -  Casinos

Torso  -  Torsos

Dynamo  -  Dynamos

Ego  -  Egos

There is a small group of nouns ending in "o" that are made plural by adding either "s" or "es".

Buffalo  -  Buffalloes  -  Buffalos

Volcano  -  Volcanoes  -  Volcanos

Halo  -  Haloes  -  Halos

Zero  -  Zeroes  -  Zeros

Tornado  -  Tornadoes  -  Tornados

Nouns ending in "o" prceded by a vowel and most muscical instruments ending in "o" are made plural by adding "s".

Folio  -  Folios

Bamboo  -  Bamboos

Radio  -  Radios

Piano  -  Pianos

Sopranos  -  Sopranos

Banjio  -  Banjios

Compound nouns are usually made plural by making the principal noun plural.

Mother-in- law  -  Mothers-in-law

Notebook  -  Notebooks

Horseman  -  Horsemen

Music lesson  -  Music lessons

Compound nouns mad of two nouns of equal importance are made them plural by making both nouns plural.

Woman driver  -  Women drivers

Manservant  -  Menservants

Some nouns do not change forms from singular to plural.

Deer  -  Deer

Sheep  -  Sheep

Fish  -  Fish

Chinese  -  Chinese

Series  -  Series

Forceps  -  Forceps 

Some nouns are only used in the plural form.

Clothes

Goods

Scissors

Measles

Pants