Nouns in
_y_ after a vowel add _s_.
+Direction+.--_Form the plural of each of the following nouns_:--
Alley, ally, attorney, chimney, city, colloquy, [Footnote: _U_ after _q_ is
a consonant] daisy, essay, fairy, fancy, kidney, lady, lily, money, monkey,
mystery, soliloquy, turkey, valley, vanity.
The following nouns change _f_ or _fe_ into _ves_.
+Direction+.--_Form the plural of each of the following nouns_:--
Beef, calf, elf, half, knife, leaf, life, loaf, self, sheaf, shelf, staff,
[Footnote: _Staff_ (a stick or support), _staves_ or _staffs_; _staff_ (a
body of officers), _staffs_. The compounds of _staff_ are regular; as,
_flagstaffs_.] thief, wharf, [Footnote: In England, generally _wharfs_.]
wife, wolf.
The following nouns in _f_ and _fe_ are regular.
+Direction+.--_Form the plural of each of the following nouns_:--
Belief, brief, chief, dwarf, fife, grief, gulf, hoof, kerchief, proof,
reef, roof, safe, scarf, strife, waif.
(Nouns in _ff_, except _staff_, are regular; as, _cuff_, _cuffs_.)
The following plurals are still more irregular.
+Direction+.--_Learn to form the following plurals_:--
Child, children; foot, feet; goose, geese; louse, lice; man, men; mouse,
mice; Mr., Messrs.; ox, oxen; tooth, teeth; woman, women.
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