Singular and Plural Nouns

Some plural nouns are not formed with 's':  Irregular Plurals Singular	Plural
a child	children
a man	men
a woman	women
a person	people
foot	feet
a tooth	teeth
a sheep	sheep

When a word starts with a vowel sound  'a' changes to 'an' Singular	Plural
an actor	actors
an engineer	engineers
an idea	ideas
an orange	oranges
an umbrella	umbrellas
an English name	English names
an old bag	old bags

Uncountable Nouns

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There are nouns that you cannot count. You cannot use 'a' or 'an' before these nouns, and you cannot make them plural:

a bread - bread
s

a rice - rice
s

a milk - milk
s

an information - information
s

a money - money
s

a news - news
es

a traffic - traffic
s

a music - music
s

an equipment - equipment
s

Definite Article 'the'The definite article 'the' is the same for singular, plural and uncountable nouns:

• a table  the table
• actors  the actors
• information  the information

AdjectivesAdjectives never take a plural 's':

• a good friend  good friends
• an old man  old men
• She is kind.  They are kind.