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What do we mean whenwe say plural form of noun​

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One person, place or thing is a singular noun. Having more than one things, or having multiple people or places, that's referring to plural nouns.

For example,

  • One school = singular
  • Two schools = plural

We simply add s to the end of the noun for a lot of cases to make it a plural form. Though sometimes you'll have something like this

  • One cross = singular
  • Two crosses = plural

Note how we add on 'es' instead of simply 's'. This is so won't have a string of 's' letters at the end, and it adds on another syllable as well.

Some nouns are the same whether singular or plural. Such examples are

  • fish
  • deer
  • sheep

So you could say something like "I caught one fish yesterday" or "The biologist estimates there are about 200 fish in the lake".

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