Number Nouns (Cl-2)

SINGULAR AND PLURAL NOUNS : NUMBER NOUNS

Singular Nouns are names of person, place, animal or thing which are one in number. For example :
boy, girl, school, teacher, garden, park, dog, cat, cow, pen, pencil etc.

Plural Nouns are names of person, place, animal or thing which are more than one in number. For example :
boys, girls, schools, teachers, gardens, parks, dogs, cats, pens, pencils etc.

There are certain rules we have to remember when we are learning Number Nouns.

1) For some nouns we simply add "s" to make it Plural. For example : pen - pens, boy - boys, cow - cows.

2) Nouns which end in "s", "sh", "ch", and "x", we add "es" to the nouns to make it Plural. For example:
glass - glasses, bush - bushes, bench - benches, box - boxes.

3) Nouns which end in "o", we add "es" to the nouns to make it Plural. For example : cargo - cargoes,
mango - mangoes, echo - echoes.