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dish dishes bench benches
mango mangoes box boxes
For singular nouns ending in -y and having a consonant before it, we change
-y into -ies to make them plurals.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Nouns: Singular and Plural
baby babies puppy puppies
For singular nouns ending in -y and having a vowel (a, e, i, o, u) before it, we
add an -s after -y to make them plurals.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
key keys toy toys
Some singular nouns become plural by changing their inside vowels.
Singular Plural Singular Plural
man men tooth teeth
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