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This document, provided by purdue university's academic center for excellence and the online writing lab, explains how to form the plural of various nouns, including rules for adding -s, -es, -ies, and -es to different types of words.
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Spelling Noun Plurals Provided by the Academic Center for Excellence 1 Revised Summer 2015
Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/index.php.
Plurals of nouns can be created in the following ways:
a. All words that end in a vowel plus -o (-ao, -eo, -io, -oo, -uo) have plurals that end in just -s:
Provided by the Academic Center for Excellence 2 Spelling Noun Plurals
b. All musical terms ending in -o have plurals ending in just -s.
c. The following are examples of plural forms of words ending in -o:
-os -oes -os or -oes albinos armadillos autos bravos broncos cantos casinos combos gazebos infernos kimonos logos ponchos sombreros tacos torsos tobaccos typos
echoes embargoes heroes potatoes tomatoes torpedoes vetoes
avocados / oes buffaloes / os cargoes / os desperadoes / os dodoes / os dominoes / os ghettos / oes hoboes / os innuendoes / os lassos / oes mangoes / os mosquitoes / os mottoes / os palmettos / oes tornadoes / os volcanoes / os zeros / oes
If you are unsure of how to make a noun plural, you can look up the singular form of noun in a dictionary to get the plural form.