Grade 4 English: Irregular Plural Nouns

Look at this picture.

What can you see?

Who can you see

here?
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Read and remember!

The regular plural form of nouns is made by

adding -s or -es to the end of the word.
For example:
one class – two classes
one church – three churches
one fox – four foxes

The irregular plural form of nouns changes

completely and has to be remembered!
For example:
one child - two children

one man - two men

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□! Irregular nouns have to be remembered□!

Singular Plural

a child children

a man men

a person people

a woman women

a tooth teeth

a foot feet
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a goose geese

a mouse mice
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Some irregular nouns end in “f” or “fe”. To make such nouns

plural, you change the “f” or “fe” to “ve” and add “s”.

More than one elf = elves More than one shelf = shelves

More than one wolf = wolves More than one calf = calves

More than one loaf = loaves More than one knife = knives

More than one leaf = leaves More than one loaf = loaves
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Some irregular plural nouns have the same spelling as their

singular form: scissors, pants, bison, deer, and sheep

Some animal nouns become plural by keeping the same spelling

as their singular form or by receiving -s or -es.

More than one shrimp = shrimp

or shrimps

More than one fish = fish or

fishes
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More than one quail = quail or

quails

More than one sheep = sheep

More than one deer = deer

Practice time!

Task 1: Which one is right? Underline the correct plural form

of each noun and find a picture for it.
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1. Singular: a child
Plural: childs / childes / children a.

2. Singular: a leaf
Plural: leaves / leafes / leafs? b. c.

3. Singular: a tooth
Plural: tooths / teeth / teethes?
d.

4. Singular: a man
Plural: mans / men / mens?
e.

5. Singular: a mouse
Plural: mouses / mices / mice?
f.

6. Singular: a wolf
Plural: wolfes / wolfs / wolves?

g.
7. Singular: a woman
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Plural: women /womens /womans?

8. Singular: a goose h.
Plural: gooses / geeses / geese?

Task 2: Turn the nouns in bold into the plural form.

1. Many _________ (child) do not like to take a nap.

2. There were lots of _________ (mouse) in the barn.

3. During migration, Canada _________ (goose) fly in

a V formation.

4. Look at these _________ (person), they are wearing

costumes!

5. I always brush my _________ (tooth) in the morning.

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6. These _________(fish) look fantastic!

7. Look at your _________ (foot). They are dirty now!

8. White-tailed _________ (deer) have excellent horizontal

sight, but they don’t see well vertically.

Task3: Colour the pairs of irregular plural nouns.

Use different colours.

START

tooth woman deer goose mice oxen

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foot child man women feet men

sheep people mouse person teeth child

ox children deer geese woman foot

Task 4: Choose two pairs of irregular plural nouns and write

complete sentences.

1.__________________________________________________
_______

2.__________________________________________________
_______

3.__________________________________________________
_______
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4.__________________________________________________
_______

5.__________________________________________________
_______

6.__________________________________________________
_______

WELL DONE!!!