Every word in the English language belongs to a particular family or group or category named “Parts of Speech“.
There are in all ten “parts of speech” in the English Language. This means that every English word would fall under one of these parts of speech.
They are as:
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Verb
- Auxiliary
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Article
- Interjection
1. Noun: a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ). Every noun has a number, gender, and kind.
Number: There are singular nouns and plural nouns as in below example
Singular
Girl
Box
Victory
Thief
Plural
Girls
Boxes
Victories
Thieves
In order to get the plural, we add the letter ‘s’ to some nouns, letters ‘es’ to some, ‘ves’ to such nouns that end in ‘f’, and ‘ies’ to the nouns that end in ‘y’.
For some nouns, the plural spelling is altogether different like the following:
Singular
Man
Woman
Foot
Plural
Men
Women
Feet
Some nouns have the same form for singular and also plural as below:
Sheep, Deer, Series, Corps, Swine, Species, Means
Some nouns are used only in the plural even if the noun referred and used is in single quantity as below:
Scissors, Tongs, Pincers, Spectacles, Trousers, Drawers
Some are used only in singular form though they sound like plurals in terms of the spelling. Examples are:
News, Innings, Ethics, Civics, Physics, Athletics, Economics