If a noun ends in an ‘s’ , ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘x’ or 'z' then you add an ‘es’ on the end of the word to make it plural. A useful way to remember this, is that words ending with a ...

A plural noun just means more than one. So, we learned that to make a noun mean more than one, we add an S, sometimes we add an ES depending on what the word ends with. Remember, if it ends with ...

If you want to make possessive a plural irregular noun that does not end in S, like children, add both an apostrophe and also an S: children’s clothes. It’s easy. Or it should be.

The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only ...

There are some nouns that only have a plural form, regardless of how we think of them. They are known as pluralia tantum , Latin for "plural only." Here are 11 of them.

In these cases, the plural can go on the end, or on the noun. 23. MOTHERS-IN-LAW. 24. SLEIGHTS-OF-HAND. 25. ... but when there's a noun inside a set phrase, we get unsure of ourselves.

The word “majority” can be either singular or plural, ... The phrase “many a” is always followed by a singular noun though the meaning is plural. — rayanal@yahoo.co.uk.