plural forms

12/04/16 5Regular Plural Nouns Most nouns in English are made into plural nouns by adding an s to the singular form.. Example: Book  Book s If the noun ends with an s, ch, sh, or x, an

Plural Forms

A STRAWBERRY

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TWO STRAWBERRIES

A

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Regular Plural Nouns

Most nouns in English are made into plural nouns by adding an s to the singular form

Example: Book  Book s

If the noun ends with an s, ch, sh, or x, an es

is added to make the noun plural

Example: Watch - Watch es

Irregular Plural Nouns

Noun type Forming the

plural Examples

Ends with -fe Change f to v

then Add -s

knife - knives life - lives wife - wives

Ends with -f Change f to v

then Add -es

half - halves wolf - wolves loaf - loaves

Ends with -o Add -es

potato - potatoes tomato - tomatoes

volcano - volcanoes

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ends with -us Change -us to -i cactus - cactinucleus - nuclei

focus - foci

ends with -is Change -is to -es analysis - analysescrisis - crises

thesis - theses

ends with -on Change -on to -a

phenomenon - phenomena criterion - criteria

ALL KINDS

Change the vowel

or Change the word

or Add a different

ending

man - men foot - feet child - children person - people tooth - teeth mouse - mice

Unchanging Singular and plural

are the same

sheep deer fish (sometimes)

Exercise 1

A pencil

Butterflies

A brush

Geese

A tooth

A leaf

A piano

Classes Mice

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Exercise 2

1 There are too many box in our attic boxes

2 How many picture did you take on your trip?

3 Cheryl doesn’t enjoy washing dish

4 There are three church in our little

community.

5 Our soccer team has had four wins and

three loss

A TELEPHONE

FOUR TELEPHONES

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SHEEP

SHEEP

WATCHES

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That’s all for

today See you soon!