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child - children
woman - women
mars - men
mouse - mice
goose - geese
E. Nouns ending ¡n “y” preceded by a consonant, the plural is formed by changing
“y” to
T and adding “-es”
Examples:
Lady - ladles
duty - duties
EXCEPTIONS:
Day - days
monkey - monkeys
F. Nouns ending In "o" preceded by a Consonant, the plural Is made by adding “es”
Examples:
hero - heroes
potato - potatoes
G. Few nouns have the same singular and plural forms
Examples:
sheep - sheep
deer - deer
serles - serIes
SpecIes - specIes
H. Some nouns keep their foreign language for plural form
Examples:
crisis - aises
analysis - analyses
alumnus - alumnus
agendum - agendum
Criterion - CriterIa
phenomenon - phenomena

Subject-Verb Agreement
1. The 5ubject of a sentence or clause must agree In number with the main or
auxiliary
verb of that sentence or clause.
Examples:
• The books were on the table yesterday.
• Whatever you want to do is fine with me.
• Every book Is checked out.
• One of the books was missang.
• The news is on at 6:00.

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