hi i'm ashley and this is mia
in this lesson we are going to begin learning about plural nouns are you ready let's go
so you already know that a noun names a person place or thing like girl house or hat girl house
and hat are called singular nouns that's because there's only one girl house or hat
plural nouns refer to more than one person place or thing like girls houses or hats
we usually make a noun plural by just adding an s to the end of the noun and when a noun
becomes plural just by adding an s we call that a regular plural noun
there are lots of regular plural nouns like books games girls dogs computers and robots all
of these words are regular plural nouns because to make them plural all we do is add the letter s
there are also irregular plural nouns these nouns are made plural by doing something
other than just adding s some words become plural by adding es instead of just s you need to add e
s to the nouns that end with s x sh and ch if you want to make them plural
let's look at some examples of nouns that end with s x sh or ch
remember to make these nouns plural we add es instead of just s so words like dress and mess
become dresses and messes when there are more than one box and axe become boxes and axes
wish and dish become wishes and dishes and the plural form of words like
branch and church are branches and churches let's practice some irregular plural nouns together
the word class is singular it means just one class but what if i have more than one class
how would i write the plural form of class
class ends with the letter s so i know the plural form is classes i add es to the noun that ends
with an s let's try another how about fox well fox ends with an x so more than one would be foxes
i think we're getting the hang of this let's practice a couple more together
how about the noun radish radish ends with sh and i probably wouldn't have
only one radish growing in my garden i would have more than one and that would be radishes
okay last one how would we write the plural form of the noun watch i wear a watch to tell the time
but if i owned more than one i would have watches with an es on the end because watch ends with ch
in this lesson we learned that when we have more than one person place or thing we might have a
regular plural noun which means we just add s or we might have an irregular plural noun which means
we do something other than just add s we learned how to form the plural nouns of words ending
with s x ch and sh when you want to make these words plural you just add es we'll stop there for
now because that's a lot to remember of course there's one more thing though always be clever