English Language
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The plural of most nouns are formed by adding s Final e is dropped before a suffix beginning with a vowel, Final y, if preceded by a consonant, is changed to i. The letter i comes before e except after c We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes. Then one fowl is a goose but two are called geese. You may find a lone mouse or a whole set of mice, If the plural of man is always called men, If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet, If one is a tooth and whole set are teeth, Then one may be that, and three would be those, We speak of a brother and also of brethren. Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, So English, I fancy you all will agree, The letter q is always followed by u.
but is kept before a suffix beginning with a consonant.
When y is preceded by a vowel, the y is kept before any suffix.
or when sounded like a as in neighbor or weigh.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Yet the plural of mouse should never be meese.
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?
Yet had in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren.
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.
