In general, to form plurals in English, you add either -s or -es (and sometimes change a y to an i). But there are a number of words – including some you use every day – that don’t follow this rule.

One morning earlier this week I was able to spend about 10 minutes with a university professor who teaches English composition to freshmen students. It wasn't lost on me that I haven't listened to an ...

Usually English plurals are pretty easy. Just add s: one dog, two dogs. We know some plurals don't use s: children, deer. There are some nouns that we seem to use only in the plural: thanks, ...

Think you know your plurals? From everyday words like “tomato” to tricky Latin and Greek forms like “nucleus” and “appendix,” this 25-question quiz will put your grammar skills to the ultimate test.

Algae thrives in sunlight. Or is it algae thrive? These are the questions that can broadside a copy editor years, even decades, into her career. When it comes to English, there’s never a point where ...

Lots of languages have distinct plural forms for you. When talking to more than one person, the French use vous; the Italians, voi; the Spanish, ustedes; and the Germans, ihr. Wouldn't it be useful if ...

The usual way to modify a noun in English is to put an adjective before the noun: nice view, tasty treat, hot day. But every once in a while, we put the adjective after the noun. Often this is because ...

Take our English quiz and find out if you know the plurals of these tricky words. Is the word 'sheep' singular or plural? What is the plural form of 'information'? While you can derive the plurals of ...

For more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, educated Europeans were distinguished by their knowledge of Latin. One of the three subjects of the trivium—the basic tier of a classical education, ...