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Sunday, 27 March 2011

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