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.

Here's a rule about singular and plural forms that is useful to know when talking about different types of fish. Let's find out more below! There are two plural forms for the word 'fish': 'fish' and ...

Examining the problems in the use of the singular and the plural in English. I HAVE deliberately coined the above tongue-twisting title for the tricky topic of singular and plural in English.

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 ...

Fish don’t know they’re wet, and we English speakers don’t know we’re weird. Have you ever thought about how odd it is that English uses the same word for “you” in the singular and the plural?

In this paper we show that focus structure determines the interpretation of bare plurals in English: topic bare plurals are interpreted generically, focused bare plurals are interpreted existentially.