Some English words whose plural forms you may not know


English Lesson Notes for Junior Secondary

Some English words whose plural forms you may not know

The overfamiliarity with the fact that most English nouns either take "s", "es", "ies" or "ves" as plural markers has posed a lot of problems among most second learners of English as they ignorantly apply this standard rule to nouns that do not belong to this school of thought. A typical example is the word, criteriaCriteria is the plural form of criterion, but in this part of the world where English is spoken and learnt as a second language, you often hear its users say "criterias". To this effect, this article provides the plural forms of some English words that do not form their plural forms with any of the aforementioned plural markers.
S/N
SINGULAR NOUNS
PLURAL FORMS
1
Appendix
Appendices
2
Apex
Apices
3
Thesis
Theses
4
Crisis
Crises
5
Curriculum
Curricula
6
 Criterion
Criteria
7
Phenomenon
Phenomena
8
Corpus
Corpora
9
Index
Indices
10
Nucleus
Nuclei
11
Ox
Oxen
12
Agendum
Agenda
13
Alga
Algae
14
Alumnus/Alumna
Alumni
15
Syllabus
Syllabi
16
Datum
Data
17
Amoeba
Amoebae
18
Addendum
Addenda
19
Memorandum
Memoranda
20
Bacterium
Bacteria
21
Fungus
Fungi
22
Vertebra
Vertebrae
23
Larva
Larvae
24
Genus
Genera
25
Stimulus
Stimuli

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