When a singular noun ends with a ‘y’ after a consonant, we remove the ‘y’ and add ‘ies’. For example: City – Cities Lady – Ladies Story – Stories Consonants are all other letters except vowels (a, e, i, o, u).
ends with a consonant followed by the letter Y. When this is true, you need to drop the Y and add an IES. For example, the noun fly ends in an L and a Y. To correctly spell the plural form of FLY you would replace the Y with and an I and add ES. When a noun ends in an...
When a noun ends in a consonant and -y we make the plural in -ies... 辅音+y结尾 lady > ladies; country > countries; party > parties …but if a noun ends in a vowel and -y we simply add -s: boy > boys; day > days; play > plays Some comm...
To navigate the site, probably the easiest way is to click on the “Starts with” menu with the beginning letter you’re looking for. For a noun that ends in a certain letter, first click to “Nouns ending in” link to be taken to a menu with A, B, C… through Z choices. Visito...
Sometimes you will have to make slight modifications to the root noun if it ends in -e, -y or -t. For example, if the noun is "offense," the adjective is "offensive." In this case, drop the -e from the noun and add -ive to create the adjective through the final consonant. Lear...
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Ends in consonant +-yRule: If a singular noun ends in-yAND the letter before the-yis a consonant, change the ending to‑iesto make the noun plural. Return totoporpost contents Ends in vowel +-yRule: If a singular noun ends in-yAND the letter before the-yis a vowel, addsto make...
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If a noun ends with‘y’, the‘y’is changed into‘i’and‘es’is added to it for making its plural form. Examples: lady – ladies, country – countries. Plural forms for a few nouns are formeddifferently. Examples: wife – wives, knife – knives, leaf – leaves, man – men, toot...
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