This word and this word is that this one hasĪn s on the end of it. Here's a good example, right? We have one elephant here. These in turn in later videos, but for now I just want you toįocus on the regular plural, which again we can sum up in this way. These are the irregular plurals, and we'll be covering each of And sheep stays sheep, believe it or not. Each one of these wordsĬorresponds to a class of words that has its own unique You can't say leafs, childs, and funguses, and mouses, and sheeps. How would you, you know youĬan't just add an s to these? That's unfortunately not how Now we have words like leaf, child, and fungus, which is like a mushroom, mouse, and sheep. They are not regular, thus irregular, not. That there's more than one dog is throw on an s, and we're lucky because most English nouns behave that way. What that means is it obeys this one rule. All you have to do is add an s like that: add an s. If you want to make something plural, think about plus, more. It plural is very simply just take an s and you add So let's just throw out a couple of words. The plural in English, how you indicate using your language that there is more than one thing. Whenever you see plural, just think more just think plus. It comes to us from this word plus, which means more, which you might recognize plus, as we call it inĮnglish, from mathematics, from arithmetic. Plural is maybe a little bit less obvious, but it comes to us from Latin.
If you write the words down, singular contains the word single. Tell the difference between singular and plural. Out just by looking at a noun whether or not there is one of something, whether it's a singular, or whether or not there is A noun is any word that is a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. Nouns, as we discussed previously, are a type of word.
Hello grammarians! Let's talk about singularĪnd plural nouns.
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