This document discusses different types of nouns including count nouns, singular nouns, plural nouns, and proper nouns. It provides rules for forming the plural of count nouns, including adding 's' for most nouns, 'es' for nouns ending in certain letters, changing 'f' to 'v' and adding 'es' for some nouns, and some nouns having irregular plural forms. It notes that a or an is used with singular count nouns depending on whether they start with a consonant or vowel sound, and that plural nouns do not take a or an.

1. Singular/Plural
Count Nouns,
Proper Nouns

2.  Noun names a person, place,
thing, or idea.
 Usually, the first page of a
grammar book tells you about
nouns. Nouns give names of
concrete or abstract things in
our lives.

3. Singular Nouns (one)
 Use a before singular count nouns that
begin with a consonant sound.
Example:
She is a teacher.

4. Singular Nouns(one)
 Use an before singular count nouns that
begin with a vowel sound.
Example:
She is an artist.

5. Plural Nouns
 Do not put a or an before plural nouns.
 For the plural form of most nouns, add s.
•bottle – bottles
•cup – cups
•pencil – pencils
•desk – desks
•sticker – stickers
•window – windows

6. Plural Nouns
 For nouns that end in ch, x, s, or s sounds,
add es.
•box – boxes
•watch – watches
•moss – mosses
•bus – buses

7. Plural Nouns
 For nouns ending in f or fe, change f to v
and add es.
•wolf – wolves
•wife – wives
•leaf – leaves
•life – lives

8. Plural Nouns
 Some nouns have different plural forms.
•child – children
•woman – women
•man – men
•mouse – mice
•goose – geese

9. Plural Nouns
 Nouns ending in vowels like y or o do not
have definite rules.
•baby – babies
•toy – toys
•kidney – kidneys
•potato – potatoes
•memo – memos
•stereo – stereos

10. Plural Nouns
 A few nouns have the same singular and
plural forms.
•sheep – sheep
•deer – deer
•series – series
•species – species