The document discusses rules for forming plural nouns in English from singular nouns. It provides examples of how to make nouns plural by adding -s, -es, or -ies depending on whether the singular noun ends in a consonant, s, sh, ch, x or y. It also lists irregular plural forms and includes a homework chart to complete with additional plural and singular noun pairs.
The document discusses rules for forming plural nouns in English from singular nouns. It provides examples of how to make nouns plural by adding -s, -es, or -ies depending on whether the singular noun ends in a consonant, s, sh, ch, x or y. It also lists irregular plural forms and includes a homework chart to complete with additional plural and singular noun pairs.
The document discusses rules for forming plural nouns in English from singular nouns. It provides examples of how to make nouns plural by adding -s, -es, or -ies depending on whether the singular noun ends in a consonant, s, sh, ch, x or y. It also lists irregular plural forms and includes a homework chart to complete with additional plural and singular noun pairs.
The document discusses rules for forming plural nouns in English from singular nouns. It provides examples of how to make nouns plural by adding -s, -es, or -ies depending on whether the singular noun ends in a consonant, s, sh, ch, x or y. It also lists irregular plural forms and includes a homework chart to complete with additional plural and singular noun pairs.
Noun: person.thing,places,idea,animals,substance, food,events, material etc
rule Singular noun Plural noun
Most nouns you add -S(at Dog Dogs the end of the word) Hand Hands Stock Stocks Producto Products table tables For nouns ending in SH, Bench Benches CH,S,SS and X, you add-ES Watch Watches Ash Ashes Bus Buses glass Glasses box Boxes crash crashes For nouns ending in y,but Toy Toys before there is a vowel Monkey Monkeys (a,e,i,o,u) you add -S Boy Boys tray trays For nouns ending in y but Company Companies before there is a consonant, Lady Ladies you change y by i and add- Library Libraries ES Country Countries Baby Babies city cities
For nouns ending in O but Radio Radios
before there is a vowel Zoo Zoos (a,e,i,o,u) you add - S Stereo Stereos Portfolio Portfolios Video Videos audio audios For nouns ending in O but Hero Héroes before there is a consonant, Avocado Avocadoes you add-ES Tomatoes Tomatoes Potato Potatoes zero zeroes For nouns ending with the Wolf Wolves letter F or FE, change the F of Wife Wives FE to-ves half halves IRREGULAR Man Men Person People Foot Feed Child Children Mouse mice Cash cash business business
Homework complete the chart with plural and singular nouns
Singular noun Plural nouns
goose geese thief thieves fish fishes sheep sheep fox foxes cherry cherries bush bushes knife knives leaf leaves ox oxen sandwich sandwiches peach peaches roof rooves species species penny pennies tuna tuna salmon salmons file files loaf loaves self selves