Tricky articles v/s singular-plural

While converting singular sentences into plural, make sure that all the articles are removed.Similarly while converting plural sentences into singular,insert the proper article (a,an) before the noun(if necessary).

For example-

Case one(singular to plural)

a)     A chair is made of wood.

Ans) Chairs are made of wood.

b)     An airport is a busy place.

Ans) Airports are busy places.

Case two(plural to singular)

a)    Horses are animals.

Ans)A horse is an animal.

b)     Cows give milk.

Ans) A cow gives milk.

Note-No article is added before the word "milk" because it is an uncountable noun .

Pluralisation Errors

Following words need special attention before making their plurals

Child-Children

person-people

foot-feet

mouse-mice

tooth-teeth

man-men

woman-women

ox-oxen

goose-geese

Now look at the following words as they have same identical singular and plural form

aircraft-aircraft

fish-fish

headquaters-headquaters

sheep-sheep

species-species

deer-deer

Some nouns exists only in plural form

cattle

scissors

trousers

tweezers

congratulations

pyjamas

Note- The uncountable noun will take only singular form which will be discussed in the next post