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Rule Examples

Some nouns do not • man—men
follow any rules
• woman—women

• child—children

• foot—feet

• tooth—teeth

• goose—geese

• mouse—mice

• person—people

• ox—oxen

Some nouns are the same • fish—fish (“fishes” is

in both singular and possible when we mean
plural form various kinds of fishes)

• sheep—sheep

• deer—deer

• tuna—tuna
Note
• salmon—salmon
“Furniture” and
• trout—trout “information” are
uncountable nouns,
• spacecraft—spacecraft
they don’t have a
plural form.
Some nouns have • news
a plural form but

singular meaning • athletics
• physics

• billiards

Some nouns are • trousers
always plural
• jeans

• glasses

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