Ch 3 Food talk Grammar 8 Plurals

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Plurals (meervouden)
Most plurals have a regular plural form. You make these words plural by adding an -s.
NEVER use -'s for plural forms!
  • gift - gifts
  • dog - dogs
  • message - messages
  • car - cars

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Plurals - Nouns with /sh/-sound
Nouns that end with -s, -ss, -x, -z or ch get -es

  • bus - buses
  • match - matches
  • glass - glasses
  • box - boxes
  • buzz - buzzes

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Plurals - Nouns that end in -o
Nouns that end with consonant + o usually get - es
But there are exceptions, these are usually borrowed from other languages. These words get -s in plural form

  • hero - heroes / tomato - tomatoes / echo - echoes
  • exceptions: photo - photos / solo - solos

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Plurals - Nouns with (e)f
Nouns that end with -f or -ef get -ves

  • shelf - shelves
  • wolf - wolves
  • knife - knives
  • dwarf - dwarves
  • leaf - leaves

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Plurals - nouns that end in -y
1) nouns that end in consonant + y get -ies
2) nouns that end in vowel + y get -s          (vowels: a, e, i, o, u)

  1. party - parties / baby - babies  / hobby  - hobbies 
  2. key - keys  / boy - boys / eye - eyes

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Plurals - irregular forms
1) some nouns have irregular plural forms
2) some nouns stay the same in plural form

  1. mouse - mice / woman - women / man - men / foot - feet / tooth - teeth 
  2. one fish - twenty fish / sheep - sheep / moose - moose

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one strawberry
two strawberries

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one strawberry
two _____________

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one bus
three ______________

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one bus
three buses

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What are the plural forms of:
toy, cookie, tooth, tomato? (check your answers in ex. 33a!)
A
toys, cookies, tooths, tomatoes
B
toy's, cookies, teeth, tomatoes
C
toys, cookies, teeth, tomatoes
D
toys, cookies, teeth, tomatos

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What are the plural forms of:
university, sausage, foot, bucket?
(ex. 33a)
A
universitys, sausages, feet, buckets
B
universities, sausages, feet, buckets
C
universities, sausages, foots, buckets
D
universities, sausages, feet, bucket's

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Just a reminder:
never use 's in plural forms!

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Answers ex. 33b
(Teams)

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