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 Plural means of or being a grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.
+Two Types of Plurals:
+*Regular Plurals
+*Irregular Plurals
 ==Regular Plurals==
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 *Some plural can only be pronounced by only adding a syllable. Add an “s” if the noun already ends in a silent “e.”
 ==Irregular Plurals==
+*Nouns that end with -s, -z, -x, -sh, -ch
+Add -es
+Examples: glass/glasses, buzz/buzzes, box/boxes, bush/bushes, switch/switches
+*Nouns that end in -o
+Add -es
+Examples: potato/potatoes, echo/echoes, hero/heroes
+''*Note There may be come exceptions.''
+*Nouns that end in a consonant + -y
+Change -y to -i and add -es
+Examples: baby/babies, spy/spies, poppy/poppies
+*Nouns that end in -f, or -fe
+Change the -f to -v and add -es
+Examples:shelf/shelves, wolf/wolves, knife/knives, wife/wives
 == Possessives ==
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    Plurals [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]
    Possessives [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm]
-   More Plurals [http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/crump.htm#Regular%20Plural%20Forms]
+   More Plurals[http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/crump.htm#Regular20Plural%20Forms]
+  Irregular Plurals [http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/pluralsn.htm]
 == Works Citied ==