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This study has two aims: one is to apply the motivation theory into English Nouns; the other is to apply this theory to English learning and to suggest that English learners can study more easily English Nouns on the cognitive theory than on other grammatical theories, in particular on generative theory. This study attempts to examine the cognitive interaction in deciding English Nouns' plural forms. And also it attempts to find out the logical reason of its form in each case. It is proved that in English Nouns there exist four kinds of plural forms; and we can find out their particular phenomena of the iconicity principle that meaning depends on form more than we think. So this study suggests that we English learners should study English nouns on the cognitive grammar.