Learn how to spell plural nouns with BBC Bitesize KS3 English. ... If a noun ends in a consonant and then a ‘y’, then the ‘y’ is removed and an ‘ies’ is added: army becomes armies; ...

Some nouns don’t change at all when made plural. Many plurals that refer to animals, for example, don’t change: We caught one fish and then later lots of fish .

There are some nouns that only have a plural form, regardless of how we think of them. They are known as pluralia tantum , Latin for "plural only." Here are 11 of them.

The roughly 200 collective nouns in the English language cause a lot of confusion, but there's a simple answer, writes grammar expert June Casagrande.