What is singular noun?

What is singular noun?
The singular nouns are words that only refer to one person or thing. They can be used as a subject, direct object, indirect object, predicate nominative, or appositive.
For example: “I went to the store.” This sentence is about the speaker and their experience at the store. It’s also possible for a singular noun to be an appositive such as in this sentence: “Tina was wearing her best dress.”
Here, Tina is being described by what she was wearing which is called an appositive.
What is plural noun?
Plural nouns are words that refer to more than one person, place or thing. They are often used in sentences where we want to talk about a group of people, animals, or things.
Let’s take the sentence “I am teaching a class this semester.” We can change it around and say “The students have been working hard all semester long.” In the first sentence, “class” is singular and in the second sentence, “students” is plural. That means you need to use a proper noun (singular or plural) according to the situation.
It may not seem like much of a difference at first but it will make your writing sound awkward if you don’t get it right! The best way is to learn the rules of plural nouns.
Tarjima. Birlik ot nima?
Birlik otlar faqat bitta shaxs yoki narsaga tegishli so'zlardir. Ular sub'ekt, to'g'ridan-to'g'ri ob'ekt, bilvosita ob'ekt, predikat nominativ yoki appozitiv sifatida ishlatilishi mumkin.
Masalan: "Men do'konga bordim." Bu jumla ma'ruzachi va ularning do'kondagi tajribasi haqida. Bu jumladagi kabi birlik otning qo'shimcha kelishi ham mumkin: "Tina eng yaxshi kiyimini kiygan".
Bu erda Tina o'zining kiygan kiyimi bilan tasvirlangan, bu esa ijobiy deb ataladi.
Ko‘plikdagi ot nima?
Ko‘plik otlari bir nechta shaxs, joy yoki narsaga ishora qiluvchi so‘zlardir. Ular ko'pincha bir guruh odamlar, hayvonlar yoki narsalar haqida gaplashmoqchi bo'lgan jumlalarda qo'llaniladi.
Keling, "Men bu semestrda dars o'taman" jumlasini olaylik. Biz buni o'zgartirib, "Talabalar butun semestr davomida qattiq mehnat qilishdi" deyishimiz mumkin. Birinchi gapda “sinf” birlik, ikkinchi gapda “talabalar” ko‘plik ma’nosida. Ya'ni, siz vaziyatga ko'ra tegishli otni (birlik yoki ko'plik) ishlatishingiz kerak.
Avvaliga bu unchalik farq qilmasligi mumkin, lekin to'g'ri tushunmasangiz, yozishingiz noqulay bo'ladi! Eng yaxshi usul - ko'plik otlari qoidalarini o'rganishdir.

Plural Noun Rules

We’ll break down the rules so you’ll never get your plural nouns wrong again.

Singular	Plural
Chair	Chairs
Table	Tables
Pencil	Pencils
Book	Books
Cat	Cats

Singular	Plural
Tomato	Tomatoes
Potato	Potatoes
Mosquito	Mosquitoes
Echo	Echoes
Zero	Zeroes

Rule-3
In some Latin or Greek words (foreign words) ending in “-o”, we add suffix ‘-s’. For example,

Singular	Plural
Avocado	Avocados
Photo	Photos
Video	Videos
Studio	Studios
Radio	Radios

Rule-4
When singular noun ends in ‘-us’, we replace ‘-us’ with ‘-i’. Examples are,

Singular	Plural
Cactus	Cacti
Fungus	Fungi
Focus	Foci
Nucleus	Nuclei

Rule-5
In singular noun ending on ‘-y’ (when the letter before -y is vowel), we add ‘-s’ to the end to make the noun plural, for example,

Singular	Plural
Boy	Boys
Alloy	Alloys
Day	Days
Ray	Rays
Guy	Guys

Rule-5
In singular noun ending on ‘-y’ (when the letter before -y is vowel), we add ‘-s’ to the end to make the noun plural, for example,

Singular	Plural
Boy	Boys
Alloy	Alloys
Day	Days
Ray	Rays
Guy	Guys

Rule-7
In some cases, the singular nouns ending in ‘-s’ or ‘-z’, the last letter is doubled plus we add ‘-es’ to the end. See the examples,

Singular	Plural
Gas	Gasses
Quiz	Quizzes
Fez	Fezzes

Rule-8
In many cases, the singular noun ending in ‘-f’ or ‘-fe’, we replace the ‘-f’ or ‘-fe’ with ‘-ves’. For example,

Singular	Plural
Thief	Thieves
Wife	Wives
Loaf	Loaves
Half	Halves
Knife	Knives

There are some exceptions where the rule does not apply, Examples are roof -> roofs, belief -> beliefs, cliff -> cliffs
Rule-9
In case the noun ends in ‘-on’, we replace ‘-on’ with ‘-a’ to make it plural, for example

Singular	Plural
Criterion	Criteria
Phenomenon	Phenomena

Types of Plurals
A lot of people don’t know about the types of plural nouns, but it’s important to understand that there are three types of plurals:-
Regular Plurals
Irregular Plurals
Compound Words
The plural noun rule is one of those things that can trip you up when you’re writing sentences
Regular Plurals
Regular plurals end in s or es. For example, bag -> bags, toy -> toys, pen -> pens etc.
Compound Plurals
Compound words are made up of two words put together to make one word. For example, “bookcase” is a compound word with two parts – book and case. To form the plural form of this word, we would simply add an ‘s’ at the end (bookcases).
It’s easy to remember these rules if you think about them like this – just add an ‘es’ for regular plurals and an ‘s’ for irregular ones!