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PLURALS

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Table of Contents:
* Lesson Aims
* Explanation of regular plural nouns
* Explanation of irregular plural nouns 

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Regular nouns: (-s)
* To make regular nouns plural, add ‑s to the end.

Examples:
cat – cats
dog - dogs
house – houses 

Regular nouns: (-es) "hissing sound"
* If the singular noun ends in ‑s, -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -z, add ‑es to the end to make it plural.

Examples:
bus – buses
marsh – marshes
lunch – lunches
tax – taxes
blitz – blitzes






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Letter -y:
* If a singular noun ends in ‑y and the letter before the -y is a consonant, change the ending to ‑ies to make the noun plural.

Examples:
baby babies
city – cities
puppy – puppies

puppy's - Is singular in English! 
Example: A puppy's life (Is ONE puppy!)

Spelling (-y)
If the singular noun ends in -y and the letter before the -y is a vowel, simply add an -s to make it plural.

Examples:
ray – rays
play - plays
boy – boys
toy - toys

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Letter -o:
If the singular noun ends in ‑o, preceded by a consonant, add ‑es to make it plural.
Examples:
hero - heroes
potato – potatoes

tomato – tomatoes

Exceptions:
photo – photos
piano – pianos
halo – halos



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Spelling change: (-f /-fe)
* If the noun ends with ‑f or ‑fe, the -f is often changed to ‑ve before adding the -s to form the plural version.
Examples:
life - lives 
wife - wives
wolf - wolves
But:
roof – roofs
belief – beliefs
chef – chefs
chief – chiefs




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Irregular plurals 
child – children
goose – geese
man – men
woman – women
tooth – teeth
foot – feet
mouse – mice
person – people








fish - fish 

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Unchanging Nouns:
Singular           Plural
aircraft             aircraft
bass                  bass
bison                bison
elk                      elk
moose             moose
shrimp             shrimp
spacecraft     spacecraft
swine               swine
trout                 trout



















sheep – sheep
series – series
species – species
deer – deer
cattle - cattle

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Noncountable nouns:
Examples: Water, grass, sand, snow, hair, mud, dress (style, not hanging in the closet), wind, rain, sun, moon(light), heat
Example sentences:
There are many different styles of hair.
There are several varieties of grass.
There are three different kinds of mud.
The ancient people had a few types of styles of dress.

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Plural of:
A
shoe
B
shoes
C
schoenen
D
shoos

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Plural of: tax
A
taxs
B
taxen
C
tax's
D
taxes

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Plural of:
A
puppies
B
puppy's
C
puppys
D
puppen

Slide 12 - Quiz

Plural of:
A
tomatos
B
tomaten
C
tomato's
D
tomatoes

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Plural of: hero
A
heroes
B
hero's
C
heros
D
held

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Exercises Regular Plural Nouns:
https://agendaweb.org/grammar/plural-exercises.html

Pick two or three regular nouns to practise

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Plural of:
A
sheeps
B
sheep
C
schapen
D
sheep's

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Plural of:
A
ganzen
B
goosen
C
gooses
D
geese

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Plural of:
Cattle
A
cattle
B
cattles
C
cattle's
D
cattlen

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Plural of:
A
knife's
B
knifes
C
knives
D
kniven

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Plural of: child
A
child's
B
childs
C
kinderen
D
children

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