What is the law/rule for plural and singular?
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Singular is one, plural denotes more than one. Changing from Singular to plural, add s, es, or ies, to singular form. Change: is to are, the to they, me, to we, or us
I agree with Rehema and Mia. They are pretty simple rules. Whenever I teach about "plural" and "singular" though, I also like to talk about "countable" and "uncountable" "Uncountable" words are one like, water, oil, fish and rice, These are words that are too impossible to read or honestly, we are just too lazy to count. However, there are some fun exceptions to this rule that even most natives don't even know. For example: Did you know you can say FISHES, that's right, FISHES You can do this if talking about more than one species of fish. You don't even have to say types of FISHES, (you can), but you can just say FISHES.
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Singular- one Plural- many or more than one Add an 's' to a singular noun to make it plural For irregular nouns, add 'es'
Plural nouns are used when referring to more than one entity of something in English, and there are rules for pluralizing nouns. The most basic rule is to add "s" to the end of a singular noun. However, there are both regular and irregular plural nouns.
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