Making words plural

In a nutshell

Plural means that there is more than one person or thing, and you can create and identify them in different ways.

Add 's' at the end of a word to make it plural. This is by far the most common way to form the plural.

Add 'es' at the end of a word that originally ends with these letters 'ch', 'sh', 's', 'x' and 'z' in order to make it plural.

There are two different rules for words ending in 'y'.

Add an 's' if the letter before the 'y' is a vowel (a, e, i, o, u).

If the letter before the y is a consonant, then remove the 'y' and add 'ies'.

Some words simply have irregular plurals that you have to learn.

Most of the words that don't change in the plural are animal names.