When you are talking about more than one person, place or thing, you use the plural form.. To make a plural form, you usually add -s at the end of a noun: a bunch of flowers a packet
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person, place or thing, you use the plural form
Three kittens need a good home
Only six weeks old
Purrrfect pets
To make a plural form, you usually add -s at the end of a noun:
a bunch of flowers a packet of biscuits
Singular and plural forms 35
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1 Someone is having a garage sale Say whether each noun in the notice is singular or plural
Make four sentences like this:
qa = Boo
GARAGE SALE
two bicycles (nearly new) books (hardbacks and paperbacks)
a large refrigerator cups, plates and bowls
six cotton shirts a washing machine
WHEN? — Sunday 4 June, 9 am.- 6 pm
WHERE? 15 Orchard Gardens
2 What can you see in your classroom? Make four sentences like this:
36 Nouns
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Weres used
C with means ee
@ The indefinite article
(a banana, an apple)
Someone is feeling hungry
I'm hungry, Mummy
Can I have a biscuit,
hy don't you B//have a banana
T had a banana
keeps the
eer away!
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thing, you often use a or an
You use an before words that begin with a vowel sound
an apple
38 Words used with nouns
Trang 5You use a with all the other words
The indefinite article 39
Trang 6Here are some more examples of a and an
Grammar Help Words beginning with the letter h
Use an if the b is silent: Use a if the h is pronounced:
a hand
@ huge elephant
40 Words used with nouns
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1 Here are some pieces of a jigsaw puzzle For
each piece make a sentence like this:
Cie aa xe
Oh 5=
c
~—_—————-——————
d
be k2) oF a
2 Point to a shape and make a sentence like this:
a
triangle
Dee ee
rectangle c Ề cm
©
oval e_ Sete SQUOFE
The indefinite article 41