A noun names a person, place, thing or idea. Beach, rope, Asha and Saturday are nouns. A common noun is a general name: beach, girl, net. A proper noun is a particular name and takes a capital: Mayaro, Asha, Saturday.

Plural means more than one. Regular plurals add s: nets, crabs. Words that end in s, x, ch or sh often add es: beaches, boxes. Some plurals change inside the word: child, children. You can learn those as a list.

A pronoun stands in for a noun. He, she, they, it, we and I keep a paragraph from repeating Asha Asha Asha. The pronoun must match. Asha is one girl, so she. Asha and Malik together are they.

If you can put a or the in front and it still sounds general, it is common: a beach, the net. If it is the name of one particular person or place, it is proper: Mayaro, Uncle Ravi.

Ideas can be nouns too: care, honesty, plan. In “the plan worked”, plan is a noun.

One crab, two crabs. One box, two boxes. One beach, two beaches. Do not add an apostrophe to make a plural.

Child becomes children. Man becomes men. Foot becomes feet. When you are unsure, say the word aloud. If it sounds wrong, check a dictionary.

Replace the noun only when the reader still knows who you mean. “Asha took the rope. She pulled.” She is clear. “Asha told Malik she was tired.” She might be muddy if both could be meant. Then repeat the name.

It is for one thing or animal when you are not using he or she. They is for more than one person, and also, in modern careful writing, sometimes for one person whose pronoun you have been told. In this lesson, they means more than one: the children, the fish.

I is the person speaking. We is the speaker plus others. You is the person spoken to.