General rule: singular + S: Nouns ending in -S, -SS, -SH, -CH, -X get -ES:

girl  -  girls box  -  boxes

boy  -  boys bus  -  buses

Nouns ending in -Y behind a
consonant change -Y into -IES:
lady  -  ladies
baby  -  babies
SOME nouns ending in SOME nouns ending in -O behind a
-F or -FE change -F(E) consonant get -ES:
into -VES: potato  -  potatoes
knife  -  knives tomato  -  tomatoes
wife  -  wives

You will have to learn these by heart man

foot
woman
tooth
goose
mouse
louse
child
Always plural or Always singular pennymen 
  feet
Some nouns are always PLURAL: women
clothes, jeans, trousers, shorts, people, police, glasses,
teeth scissors, mathematics
geese
Some nouns (abstract, materials, kinds of food) are micealways SINGULAR:
bread, tea, cheese, jam, soup, soap, snow, cotton, wood,lice water, information,
advice, knowledge, furniture, news children
pence
Some nouns have the SAME FORM for singular and plural:
Names of kind of fish: cod, herring, salmon, trout, ...
Names of some animals: deer, sheep, swine, ...
 
Plural of compounds
 

If you are not sure of the plural form, check in a good dictionary.
dining-room  -  dining-rooms
sister-in-law  -  sisters-in-law
forget-me-not  -  forget-me-nots