Plural Forms

[nunudada]

Can someone correct for me the following plural forms, thank you very much for your advice.

Donkey - Donkeys
Tomato - Tomatoes
Photo - Photos
Mango - Mangoes
Chairman - Chairmen
Life- Lifes
Parent - Parents
Museum - Museums
Story - Stories
Antenna - Antennas
Octipus - Octopusies
Daughter-in-law - Daughters-in-law
Index - Index
Theory - Theories
Smith - The Smiths
Curriculum - Cirruculums
Mouthful - Mouthfuls
Pendelum -Pendelums

The plural form rules I know are the following:

Words ending with "o" and which are nouns that can be eaten take the "oes"
example: tomato = tomatoes

Words ending with "o" and which are nouns that cant be eaten take the "os"
example: piano - pianos

Words ending with "y" take the "ies"
example: baby = babies

Words ending with "ss", "sh", "ch", "z" & "x", take the "es"
example: miss = misses
push - pushes

Are there other important rules that I can learn so I wont doubt the plural exercise anymore , thank alots

[mykwyner]

Donkey - Donkeys
Tomato - Tomatoes
Photo - Photos
Mango - Mangoes
Chairman - Chairmen
Life- Lifes Lives
Parent - Parents
Museum - Museums
Story - Stories
Antenna - Antennas in zoology it's Antennae
Octipus - Octopusies Octopuses or Octopi both are correct
Daughter-in-law - Daughters-in-law
Index - Index Indexes or (rarely) Indices
Theory - Theories
Smith - The Smiths
Curriculum - Cirruculums curricula or curriculums
Mouthful - Mouthfuls
Pendelum -Pendelums Pendulums

By the way, if any of your English-speaking friends is interested in the history of Malta, I recommend this book: Great Siege: Malta 1565
By Ernle Bradford
Paperback - 256 pages (June 1999)
Wordsworth Editions Ltd; ISBN: 1840222069

[nunudada]

Thank you for the help mykwyner, is there a good site from where I can get some notes on plural forms please? I tried to browse but haven't found one good yet

[mykwyner]

Try here:

Plural Noun Forms

[nunudada]

Thanks a bunch mykwyner it is indeed a very site