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Regular and Irregular Plurals
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In Modern English, the formation of plurals generally follows regular and irregular patterns. Regular plurals are formed by adding the suffix -s or -es to the singular noun. For example, “book” becomes “books” and “box” becomes “boxes.” The choice between -s and -es depends on the ending sound of the noun: nouns ending in sibilant sounds like s, x, z, ch, sh take -es, while others simply take -s. This pattern is consistent and forms the basis of most pluralization in English. Irregular plurals, on the other hand,
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