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NOUN NUMBERS

INTRODUCTION

The study of numerals regards mainly the quantity of noun and verbs. According to numbers, these are classified into two categories:

1. Singular→ One in Quantity
2. Plural → More in Quantity.

SINGULARS

Nouns with one in quantity are called Singular Nouns. 

Moon, Soma, Rishu, Mayor, Ball, Pen, Mango, Dog, Shero, Kitty, Ryan, Joel, Tom etc. are some examples for Singular Nouns.

Singular can be nouns, Pronouns and Verbs, that we will learn in our upcoming Slides.

PLURALS 

Noun with more than one in quantity are called Plural Nouns. 

Dogs, Pens, Stars, Doctors, Teachers etc are some examples of Plural Nouns.

Always remember→ There is no Plural form available for Proper Noun.

RULES 

1) Simply adding 's' or 'es' to words.
     Bird to Birds 
     Tomato to Tomatoes

2) Adding 'ies' in the place of 'y'.
     Harmony to Harmonies
     Thievery to Thieveries 
     Petty to Petties

3) Adding 'ves' in the place of 'f'.
     Loaf to Loaves 
     Self to Selves 

4) Adding 'ys' in place of 'y'
     Holiday to Holidays
     Guy to Guys

5) Adding 'ves' in the place of 'fe'.
     Life to Lives 
     Wife to Wives 
 
6) Adding 'es' with 'o'.
     Tomato to Tomatoes
     Negro to Negroes

7) Adding '-ice' in the place of "-ouse"
     Mouse to Mice 
     Louse to Lice 
  (Exception is House)

8) Changing 'a' to 'e' 
     Man to Men 
     Woman to Women.

9) Adding 'ee' in the place of 'oo'
     Tooth to Teeth 
     
10) N¹+ Prep+ N² to N¹+s+Prep+ N²
      Court- Martial to Court- Martials

11) Short form Rule 
       M.A to M.A.s or M.A's 

12) Adding 'a' in the place of 'um'
       Erratum to Errata 

13) Adding "ices/es" in the place of 'x'.
       Index to Indices/ indixes
       Matrix to Matrices 

14) Adding 'e/s' in the place of 'a'.
       Formula to Formulae/Formulas 

15) Adding 'sis' to in the place of 'ses'.
       Synopsis to Synopses 
       Thesis to Theses

16) Adding 'na' in the place of 'non'.
       Phenomenon to Phenomena

17) Adding 'i' in the place of 'o'.
       Tempo to Tempi 

18) Adding 'i' in the place of 'us'
       Radius to Radii 

19) Adding 'a' in the place of 'ion'.
       Criterion to Criteria

20) Adding 'es' in the place of 'is'
       Axis to Axes 
       Crisis to Crises
       Thesis to Theses 

There are some other exceptional singular and plural Numbers which will be provided to you in futher slides as " Exceptional Numbers" 


      


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