| Singular number
| Plural number
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| Основа + закінчення -s
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| a boy, a table, a trick, a whiff, a smith, a railway
| boys, tables, tricks, whiffs, smiths, railways
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Основа + закінчення –es після –s, -ch, -tch, -sh, -ss, -x, -o
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| a bench, a bus, a glass, a bush, a brush, a match, a box, a potato
| benches, buses, glasses, bushes, brushes, matches, boxes, potatoes
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Кінцева –у (після приголосного) змінюєтся на -ies
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| an army, a country, a fly, a lady
| armies, countries, flies, ladies
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Кінцева –f(-fe) змінюється на –ves
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| a calf, a half, a knife, a leaf, a shelf, a wife, a wolf
| calves, halves, knives, leaves, shelves, wives, wolves
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| Compound Nouns
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| a manservant, a schoolgirl, a woman-teacher, a mother-in-law,
a passer-by, a man-of-war, a forget-me-not
| menservants, schoolgirls, women-teachers, mothers-in-law,
passers-by, men-of-war, forget-me-nots
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| Singular number
| Plural number
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a man, a woman, a foot, a tooth, a goose, a mouse, a louse,
an ox, a child
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men, women, feet, teeth, geese, mice, lice, oxen, children
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| a radius, a corpus, a formula, a bacterium,
a crisis, a criterion, an index, a bureau
| radii (или radiuses), corpora, formulae (или formulas), bacteria,
crises, criteria, indices, bureaux
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| a deer, a sheep, a salmon, a trout, a cod, an aircraft, a spacecraft,
a crossroads, a means, a series, a species, a works
| deer, sheep, salmon, trout, cod, aircraft, spacecraft,
crossroads, means, series, species, works
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Special Cases
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Only Singular number
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Only Plural number
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| advice, information, news, measles, mumps physics, knowledge, furniture, luggage, gymnastics, athletics, bowls,
billiards, dominoes, darts, draughts
| annals, archives, arms (weapons), belongings, clothes, cattle, poultry, scissors, dregs, earnings, wages, goods, trousers, binoculars, shorts, shoes, gloves, pyjamas, glasses, spectacles, earrings, socks, outskirts, premises, tights, remains, pliers, riches, surroundings, thanks, the tropics, whereabouts, people, police, stairs, (good)looks,
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