Fish or fishes? Men or mans? Childs or children? Learn about some common irregular plural nouns. Not everything ends with “s”! I’ll teach you what irregular plural nouns are, and how to pronounce some of the ones you will need to use.
hi there! When I was 18, I went to Miami Florida for vacation. When I was in the hotel with my cousin, I noticed that there was a sing about the pool’s rules. I don’t remember exactly what it said, what the thing is that instead of using the word people they used persons. With my cousin we weren’t sure if it was okay or was a grammar mistake.
Oh another thing, before watching the video I did the quiz and I scored 9 out of 10. My mistake was that I put fishes instead of fish. When I watched the video you said that fishes was allowed in some cases. I remember talking to a native speaker and I told her that bears eat fishes. Was that correct? Or Should I have said fish? I feel kind of embarrassed right now lol
Martin
nice quiz
medo
People become smarter not watching the video and just take the Quiz.that’s they lost 1 mark , as I didn’t ..
I watched and scored full :)
Salman
TEST
John
ooh my score is 9 …
This quiz too easy >>> 0_o
hani
Hi Alex, could you explain me or do a vid with repeated and double comparatives, like: the more he runs, the faster he gets- Please.
karem95
another nice lesson,thanks
rabbani
nice lesson no more videos?
noora
thanks
marwa
!!!
ongbak
thanks alex very good lesson
ongbak
Easy! F*ck yeah!!
Tilo
thank u a lot teacher i’ve got 10/10
nadia89
Hey Dear Nadia how you got it in hunderd how much tell true????
janzahir1
I cant finf the quiz
piggy12
easy peasy lemon squeezy …
enis
good, very interesting
nestorrosario
I did not understand the jokey that he made about two feet, could someone explain it to me?
Rafael Dayon
Thnk u Alex nice lesson
MEZO
My Score is:
You scored 10 out of 10.
drabogroun
I’m happy to be able to attend this video so I’m able to understand & speak the english language better.
vilma55
its superb…
shiva
Thank you very much.
hakimsunny
I think this is very helpful for me.
hakimsunny
Thanks
hakimsunny
it’s very useful your lesson
thank soo much
Sipan
wow ten of ten
Alex
thank you so much.
Great for charity.
i ‘ll learn for myself.
Bless you :)
fah
good , very nice web
ziyadhamad
Good lesson. Thank you.
ba03
sir, i happened to hear ” persons ” can be used as plural of person , please explain on which context is that..
noufalpc323
It was a piece of Cake!
fatiima8
Yes it was, but a new & useful information
Hassan
oh amazing that was wonderfull thanks teacher i haven’t see before how i can understod this lesson have only one fail
Kaka
Thanks Alex, you have a great ability to teach English, but not to draw ;) hehehe
elicaro17
Hello Please help me in next lesson ?
janzahir1
thank for your help :)
frank
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR,
swagger
thanks
masoud
thaks for the lesson!
sokou
Great job,Its a little think, but it has been a long time confusion, now it has come to end. Now clear and more confident to speak English.
Great help Alex.
Thanks a lot.
Tamil Eelavan.
Tamil EElavan
Hi There,
Could you please do lesions on following topics/ topic that would cover the following matters?
1. Different between –
a. Alex worked in a company for 4 years (but he is no longer working in the company)
b. Alex had been working 4 years in a company (but he is no longer working in the company)
2. Different between – Need explanations.
a. Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public Sunday –
i. Why we are not using On Sunday
ii. Can we write Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public on Sunday
3. Which is the correct one & why?
a. Students who have question or
b. Students who has question –
4. Which are correct one & why?
a. Everyone have /Everyone has
b. No one have / No one has
c. Everybody have/ Everybody has
d. Everyone have / Everyone has
e. Dose everyone have ? / Is everyone have?
5. Writing Media’s heading / News heading – what rule they are following?
6. Confusing of using Passive voice – which one is correct & why?
a. Mentally disabled Pakistani girl arrested for blasphemy (from Toronto star news paper)
b. Mentally disable Pakistani girl (was / is / had been / has been) arrested for blasphemy
I would appreciate if you could do lessons to get clear on above confusions matter , it would be helpful for other viewers as well.
Thank You in advance,
Tamil EElavan
“Students who have question” is correct because “who” isn’t the subject here. Just write it without “who” — “Students has” or “Students have”
Everyone, No one, Everybody, Everyone — all of these are singular.
Dose everyone have ? / Is everyone have?
If you use Do/does in question you have to put base verb — have. If you start question with “is” you have to add -ing at the end of the verb -having.
Passiv = be + pp. Passive voice is used mostly in
— simple present
— simple past
— simple future
— preset perfect.
Sometimes passive is used with continuous tenses — mostly in present continuous tense. This is my observation only. But in your example — “Mentally disable Pakistani girl was arrested for blasphemy”.
morfik
Nice lession
ravisharma
Hi Sir,
Thanks for the information about Irregular Plural Nouns. It is new for me
Hassan
thanks sir,very usefull leeson.
Syd
thank you so much
asala
Hi Sir Alex
please differentiate between regular plural nouns & irregular plural nouns with some example
hassanj
Thank you so much (^_^)
muudkung
Thanks a lot :)
reqah
thank you mr alex
ibrahim magale
thanks sir,very for the lesson!
debaghi
Thank you Alex, very useful lesson.
Is there any lesson about GOOD and WELL? I’m really confused when I have to use them.
Thank you!
adrianrusu
I Got 100% :)
Jamil
I learned that people is the plural for person. Thank teacher-
adosar
@…Very Very Very Very easy…@
carrlos
100%
nguyenthedung
Please give us more exercises
nancymx24
thak you ser
peter franco
Tq sir..
saharudinzaini
Thank you ! I didn’t know the plural of mouse :)
pumpum
It’s easy! I love it :))
thanks teacher ^_6
yosef97
Thanks a lot
ganesha
You got 10 correct out of 10.
:D
pibe86
thanks very much
Tia Maria
1 got 10 !!! thank you for teaching me alex^^
aerosmith
i have 9 nice
jahongir17
HI I am vannak , I very happy have learn on hear i want learn English and i want Liston and exercises for me and my email is vannak.chhay@ymail.com and i want write and read and speaking English
vannak
HI I’m abdessamed , i’m very happy to learn english ,I study english at ALC in Marrakesh Its very nice center
ABDESSAMED
thank u
alicher
:)
Eliza
:D Nice !
jimmysaenz90
It’s a really good lesson. Thank you !!
brytyjczyk1
Pretty Interesting!
dania7
good lesson! practice with me on skype adrian.cb
adic
Thank sir!
duonglehongdiem
I got 10 correct out of 10. Good job!!!
quyngo
thanks for do this video, i hadlearned very much
1234
Thank you sir.
ida
I didn’t know the plural of Knife, Leaf and Mouse. I made note of them.
Thank you Alex.
Enrique23
Thank You sir,,,, I got 100% for the quiz. Please do more videos for improving our Language skills.
dilanisamanthika
THX INDEEDDDD
SIHAM
I got 100%
d0harcans
10 correct out of 10 – Thomas from Poland thx
7thomas7
thanks a lot sir i interest
Ahmed ibrahim
all of my answers are correct.thanks Alex.from Azerbaijan)
sevinc
you help me.thanks
midian
Hi Alex I have a question for you.I am a little curious on that matters. Please enlight me. For example: İf I have an apple I say normally I have an apple and İf I have more apples I say I have two or three apples.My question is : why Do we say three apples? I mean why do we add an (s) end of the apple word.I don’t understand this.Because the word three also does define it plural.Doesn’t it?
khanvast26
Dear Sir Alex,
I have been finding your lessons quite interesting and helpful. I teach English to my kinsmen and I enjoy doing it, just because I love this language. About plural nouns I got some questions: times ago I was reading Cambridge grammar of English and I had found that the word person has got two plural forms: people and persons. people form common use and persons for special use like v.i.p. eg. our parliament has got many persons and not people. How far is it true and consistent? email me via pemanzinga@yahoo.com.br
Pembele
thanks Alex for your help with my english lessons
Martin
As always I*m grateful to you,Alex, for this useful lesson!
petrywka1992
Thanks, Alex! I have been liking to learn the plural of the nouns!
Hi, I´d like if are there more irregular plural nouns in english?
rimagui13
Thanks sir i got it hunderd %
Sir i dont have passive voice methode if you can teach us thanks alot.
janzahir1
One wife Two wives
:)xxx
sweetpoison
I got 100% love it .thanks teacher
dine02
Thank you Alex i’m ready for exam. If i was so good when i was young now i’ll was a famous scientist. Keep doing that excellent support to all of us.
pafsilipoclub
Thank you teacher Alex
airtel872
very good I can learn a lot
poolbuma
Thanks sir ! I got 100.
jimmy9x
You are a very good teacher Alex.
Manuelcruz
I understood this lesson very well. And also I understood the rull of ‘f’, that is: when the noun ends with letter ‘f’ or ‘fe’ then plural makes with ‘ves’ in the end of the noun. Thank you Alex :)
Narek90
Thanks very much Mr. Alex very interesting lesson I got 100% I think every lesson interesting in which I got 100%.
Abdul Qayum
thanks Alex I can do it!! :) 10/10
bypangpang
i make a mistake that is very easy . so next time ,i ‘wll be carefull
nguyenthihiep
thanks man
Rohi Mpiana
congratulation from Dublin:)))
Tomas1010
Many thanks!
Iamhere.
Thanks alot
Mohammed2AL-Tayar
Awsome , thank you .
Amani Ines
about person://
People vs. persons
In modern English, people is the de facto plural of person. People and person have separate Latin origins, and they came to English at different times by different paths, but there are examples of people used as a plural of person from as early as the 14th century. Persons was the original plural, and it is possible to find examples of its use in all types of writing up to the present, but it prevails only in a few contexts, most notably law and law enforcement, and in a few common phrases (e.g., persons of interest, displaced persons, missing persons). Elsewhere, it usually gives way to people.
There is an old usage prescription holding that people applies to uncountable groups of individuals (e.g., Times Square was packed with people) while persons applies to groups that are easily counted (e.g., there were four persons on the balcony). But there is no good reason for this distinction, and in any case it is not consistently borne out in real-world usage
Ali.Hakem
i got 10 ….thanks
yossef abdo
alex it’d be very informating to see ya going over ALL the nouns that have an irregular plural form
BlueVessel
Hi Alex, I really appreciate your help with Eng. 3/8/2015, I sent an appreciate token ($50..00 US) “PayPal” “LANGVID” To Donation Coordinator: langVid@langvid.com, I’m just wondering you got it??
Please help me, which sentenses is correct? Let me know.
1) What I want to do what I am about to do today? OR
2) Would I want to to what I am about to do today?
Thank You!
aloha
thank you very much
Lam Thi Hang
Thank you
Mrs Zubair
I got 10 thank you teacher
ismailhamrah
thank you mr.alex igot 10
ahmedgamel
thank you mr.
pwosti
well I answered the quiz before watching the video? to be honest I didn’t knew that the plural of person is people hahahah
lumasaged
very good teaching
bahaboubacar
You are a nice teacher
Thank You Sir :)
TaibaPk
Brilliant!
Villar
Thank you Alex!
albalachiara
100 thank you :)
Stellla
For those who asked, I think the ‘booooooo’, after the wrongful “leafs” answer, has something to do with his reference to the “maple leafs” team. Do you recall he said something like… “This is wrong in so many different levels”? I don’t think he’s a fan, plus… the team’s name should be ‘the maple leaves’, since leaves is the correct plural form of leaf.
McCree
Thank u.
Feriha Feriha
Thank you!
Liii
I’ll keep learning.
Thank you, Alex!
Young Kyung Lee
I got 10 …
Thank you so much
Jwhra.assaf
it is piece of cake !!
valéria
I got 10/10!! Thanks! Perfect lesson!
robi75
Thank you so much
Anii latukau
Good! Thank’u!
elisjetmax
Thank you Alex
kheireddine007
Thanks teacher
Wagner Marques
thanks!
shihai182
Thank you Alex.
ann ann
Nice Alex… Now I understand that people have 2 feet and we kick the ball with a foot
macmenezes
10.
thank you Alex
carlodesiderio
this is wonderful class, teacher Alex
this class is necessary when people speak english
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161 COMMENTS
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oooh i got 10 .. so great i love it .. than teatcher Alex =)
exellent!!
thank you sir.
You scored 9 out of 10 … not Bad !!!
leaf ==> Leafs (Boooooo) .. :'(
and I didn’t watch the Video .. ! :D
same I didn’t watch the Video
:D i scored it 9/10
hahaha i also answer the leaf = Leafs (boooo)
what is the mean of (boooo)???
Do you remember the beautiful song: “autumn leaves”?
ha ha,easy as a b c…..
WELL, I GOT CONFUSED, IT WAS IN SPANISH AND AN ENGLISH. I RATHER USE ENGLISH INSTED OF SPANISH.
THANK YOU,
MONIK
heyy !! what is the mean of (Leafs (boooo)
booooo means that he is don’t bleave he made just a mastake hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What about “two persons”? I have to say “two people”?
Yes, friend. You must say: Two people. Person is a singular word.
Here there’s a difference btw American English n British one,
“Two persons” is acceptable in British English.
Have a good 1!
I’ve found this: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/people-versus-persons/
hi there! When I was 18, I went to Miami Florida for vacation. When I was in the hotel with my cousin, I noticed that there was a sing about the pool’s rules. I don’t remember exactly what it said, what the thing is that instead of using the word people they used persons. With my cousin we weren’t sure if it was okay or was a grammar mistake.
Oh another thing, before watching the video I did the quiz and I scored 9 out of 10. My mistake was that I put fishes instead of fish. When I watched the video you said that fishes was allowed in some cases. I remember talking to a native speaker and I told her that bears eat fishes. Was that correct? Or Should I have said fish? I feel kind of embarrassed right now lol
nice quiz
People become smarter not watching the video and just take the Quiz.that’s they lost 1 mark , as I didn’t ..
I watched and scored full :)
TEST
ooh my score is 9 …
This quiz too easy >>> 0_o
Hi Alex, could you explain me or do a vid with repeated and double comparatives, like: the more he runs, the faster he gets- Please.
another nice lesson,thanks
nice lesson no more videos?
thanks
!!!
thanks alex very good lesson
Easy! F*ck yeah!!
thank u a lot teacher i’ve got 10/10
Hey Dear Nadia how you got it in hunderd how much tell true????
I cant finf the quiz
easy peasy lemon squeezy …
good, very interesting
I did not understand the jokey that he made about two feet, could someone explain it to me?
Thnk u Alex nice lesson
My Score is:
You scored 10 out of 10.
I’m happy to be able to attend this video so I’m able to understand & speak the english language better.
its superb…
Thank you very much.
I think this is very helpful for me.
Thanks
it’s very useful your lesson
thank soo much
wow ten of ten
thank you so much.
Great for charity.
i ‘ll learn for myself.
Bless you :)
good , very nice web
Good lesson. Thank you.
sir, i happened to hear ” persons ” can be used as plural of person , please explain on which context is that..
It was a piece of Cake!
Yes it was, but a new & useful information
oh amazing that was wonderfull thanks teacher i haven’t see before how i can understod this lesson have only one fail
Thanks Alex, you have a great ability to teach English, but not to draw ;) hehehe
Hello Please help me in next lesson ?
thank for your help :)
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR,
thanks
thaks for the lesson!
Great job,Its a little think, but it has been a long time confusion, now it has come to end. Now clear and more confident to speak English.
Great help Alex.
Thanks a lot.
Tamil Eelavan.
Hi There,
Could you please do lesions on following topics/ topic that would cover the following matters?
1. Different between –
a. Alex worked in a company for 4 years (but he is no longer working in the company)
b. Alex had been working 4 years in a company (but he is no longer working in the company)
2. Different between – Need explanations.
a. Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public Sunday –
i. Why we are not using On Sunday
ii. Can we write Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public on Sunday
3. Which is the correct one & why?
a. Students who have question or
b. Students who has question –
4. Which are correct one & why?
a. Everyone have /Everyone has
b. No one have / No one has
c. Everybody have/ Everybody has
d. Everyone have / Everyone has
e. Dose everyone have ? / Is everyone have?
5. Writing Media’s heading / News heading – what rule they are following?
6. Confusing of using Passive voice – which one is correct & why?
a. Mentally disabled Pakistani girl arrested for blasphemy (from Toronto star news paper)
b. Mentally disable Pakistani girl (was / is / had been / has been) arrested for blasphemy
I would appreciate if you could do lessons to get clear on above confusions matter , it would be helpful for other viewers as well.
Thank You in advance,
“Students who have question” is correct because “who” isn’t the subject here. Just write it without “who” — “Students has” or “Students have”
Everyone, No one, Everybody, Everyone — all of these are singular.
Dose everyone have ? / Is everyone have?
If you use Do/does in question you have to put base verb — have. If you start question with “is” you have to add -ing at the end of the verb -having.
Passiv = be + pp. Passive voice is used mostly in
— simple present
— simple past
— simple future
— preset perfect.
Sometimes passive is used with continuous tenses — mostly in present continuous tense. This is my observation only. But in your example — “Mentally disable Pakistani girl was arrested for blasphemy”.
Nice lession
Hi Sir,
Thanks for the information about Irregular Plural Nouns. It is new for me
thanks sir,very usefull leeson.
thank you so much
Hi Sir Alex
please differentiate between regular plural nouns & irregular plural nouns with some example
Thank you so much (^_^)
Thanks a lot :)
thank you mr alex
thanks sir,very for the lesson!
Thank you Alex, very useful lesson.
Is there any lesson about GOOD and WELL? I’m really confused when I have to use them.
Thank you!
I Got 100% :)
I learned that people is the plural for person. Thank teacher-
@…Very Very Very Very easy…@
100%
Please give us more exercises
thak you ser
Tq sir..
Thank you ! I didn’t know the plural of mouse :)
It’s easy! I love it :))
thanks teacher ^_6
Thanks a lot
You got 10 correct out of 10.
:D
thanks very much
1 got 10 !!! thank you for teaching me alex^^
i have 9 nice
HI I am vannak , I very happy have learn on hear i want learn English and i want Liston and exercises for me and my email is vannak.chhay@ymail.com and i want write and read and speaking English
HI I’m abdessamed , i’m very happy to learn english ,I study english at ALC in Marrakesh Its very nice center
thank u
:)
:D Nice !
It’s a really good lesson. Thank you !!
Pretty Interesting!
good lesson! practice with me on skype adrian.cb
Thank sir!
I got 10 correct out of 10. Good job!!!
thanks for do this video, i hadlearned very much
Thank you sir.
I didn’t know the plural of Knife, Leaf and Mouse. I made note of them.
Thank you Alex.
Thank You sir,,,, I got 100% for the quiz. Please do more videos for improving our Language skills.
THX INDEEDDDD
I got 100%
10 correct out of 10 – Thomas from Poland thx
thanks a lot sir i interest
all of my answers are correct.thanks Alex.from Azerbaijan)
you help me.thanks
Hi Alex I have a question for you.I am a little curious on that matters. Please enlight me. For example: İf I have an apple I say normally I have an apple and İf I have more apples I say I have two or three apples.My question is : why Do we say three apples? I mean why do we add an (s) end of the apple word.I don’t understand this.Because the word three also does define it plural.Doesn’t it?
Dear Sir Alex,
I have been finding your lessons quite interesting and helpful. I teach English to my kinsmen and I enjoy doing it, just because I love this language. About plural nouns I got some questions: times ago I was reading Cambridge grammar of English and I had found that the word person has got two plural forms: people and persons. people form common use and persons for special use like v.i.p. eg. our parliament has got many persons and not people. How far is it true and consistent? email me via pemanzinga@yahoo.com.br
thanks Alex for your help with my english lessons
As always I*m grateful to you,Alex, for this useful lesson!
Thanks, Alex! I have been liking to learn the plural of the nouns!
stomach – stomachs
ox – oxen
louse – lice
die – dice
dwarf – dwarfs/dwarves
aircraft – aircraft
deer – deer
seasons – seasons
goose – geese
hypothesis – hypotheses
radius – radii
vertebra – vertebrae
phenomenon – phenomena
shelf – shelves
chief – chiefs
Hi, I´d like if are there more irregular plural nouns in english?
Thanks sir i got it hunderd %
Sir i dont have passive voice methode if you can teach us thanks alot.
One wife Two wives
:)xxx
I got 100% love it .thanks teacher
Thank you Alex i’m ready for exam. If i was so good when i was young now i’ll was a famous scientist. Keep doing that excellent support to all of us.
Thank you teacher Alex
very good I can learn a lot
Thanks sir ! I got 100.
You are a very good teacher Alex.
I understood this lesson very well. And also I understood the rull of ‘f’, that is: when the noun ends with letter ‘f’ or ‘fe’ then plural makes with ‘ves’ in the end of the noun. Thank you Alex :)
Thanks very much Mr. Alex very interesting lesson I got 100% I think every lesson interesting in which I got 100%.
thanks Alex I can do it!! :) 10/10
i make a mistake that is very easy . so next time ,i ‘wll be carefull
thanks man
congratulation from Dublin:)))
Many thanks!
Thanks alot
Awsome , thank you .
about person://
People vs. persons
In modern English, people is the de facto plural of person. People and person have separate Latin origins, and they came to English at different times by different paths, but there are examples of people used as a plural of person from as early as the 14th century. Persons was the original plural, and it is possible to find examples of its use in all types of writing up to the present, but it prevails only in a few contexts, most notably law and law enforcement, and in a few common phrases (e.g., persons of interest, displaced persons, missing persons). Elsewhere, it usually gives way to people.
There is an old usage prescription holding that people applies to uncountable groups of individuals (e.g., Times Square was packed with people) while persons applies to groups that are easily counted (e.g., there were four persons on the balcony). But there is no good reason for this distinction, and in any case it is not consistently borne out in real-world usage
i got 10 ….thanks
alex it’d be very informating to see ya going over ALL the nouns that have an irregular plural form
Hi Alex, I really appreciate your help with Eng. 3/8/2015, I sent an appreciate token ($50..00 US) “PayPal” “LANGVID” To Donation Coordinator: langVid@langvid.com, I’m just wondering you got it??
Please help me, which sentenses is correct? Let me know.
1) What I want to do what I am about to do today? OR
2) Would I want to to what I am about to do today?
Thank You!
thank you very much
Thank you
I got 10 thank you teacher
thank you mr.alex igot 10
thank you mr.
well I answered the quiz before watching the video? to be honest I didn’t knew that the plural of person is people hahahah
very good teaching
You are a nice teacher
Thank You Sir :)
Brilliant!
Thank you Alex!
100 thank you :)
For those who asked, I think the ‘booooooo’, after the wrongful “leafs” answer, has something to do with his reference to the “maple leafs” team. Do you recall he said something like… “This is wrong in so many different levels”? I don’t think he’s a fan, plus… the team’s name should be ‘the maple leaves’, since leaves is the correct plural form of leaf.
Thank u.
Thank you!
I’ll keep learning.
Thank you, Alex!
I got 10 …
Thank you so much
it is piece of cake !!
I got 10/10!! Thanks! Perfect lesson!
Thank you so much
Good! Thank’u!
Thank you Alex
Thanks teacher
thanks!
Thank you Alex.
Nice Alex… Now I understand that people have 2 feet and we kick the ball with a foot
10.
thank you Alex
this is wonderful class, teacher Alex
this class is necessary when people speak english
I got 10/10
I got 10 outoff 10
I got 10/10
Thank you a lot