Nouns
* Definition: Nouns are words that name people, places, things, or ideas.
* Examples:
* People: teacher, child, friend
* Places: school, city, forest
* Things: book, computer, flower
* Ideas: love, happiness, freedom
Plurals
* Definition: Plurals are the forms of nouns that indicate more than one of something.
* How to form plurals:
* Add "-s" to most nouns: cat - cats, tree - trees
* Add "-es" to nouns ending in "s", "x", "ch", "sh", or "z": bus - buses, box - boxes, church - churches
* Change "y" to "ies" for nouns ending in "y" preceded by a consonant: baby - babies, fly - flies
* Some nouns have irregular plurals: child - children, man - men, woman - women
* Examples:
* Two cats
* Ten trees
* Many buses
In a nutshell: Nouns are words that name things, and plurals tell us there is more than one of those things.