NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Remembering Spelling Rules, Continued
Forming
plurals,
continued
Rule
Example
Most nouns that end in -o and refer
piano = pianos
to music form plurals by adding -s.
soprano = sopranos
piccolo = piccolos
solo = solos
Some nouns have irregular plurals.
child = children
goose = geese
woman = women
mouse = mice
Compound nouns (more than one
fathers-in-law
word) form plurals by making the
lieutenant colonels
main word plural.
courts-martial
passers-by
Compound nouns ending in -ful
cupfuls
form plurals by adding an -s to the
handfuls
end of the word.
Foreign words sometimes form
alumnus (man) = alumni (men)
their foreign language plurals.
alumna (woman) = alumnae (women)
analysis = analyses
Some nouns are the same in the
sheep
singular and plural form.
deer
trout
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