Herhaling: Irregular Plurals

Lesson Aims:
* To review what you have already learned about plural nouns. 
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Lesson Aims:
* To review what you have already learned about plural nouns. 

Slide 1 - Diapositive

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
dish  – dishes
lunch – lunches
tax – taxes
topaz – topazes






Slide 2 - Diapositive

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



Slide 3 - Diapositive

Plural Rules - Irregular Nouns
* Spelling changes
* No specific rules
* Memorize often!
* Use a dictionary if necessary

Slide 4 - Diapositive

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







ox - oxen
policeman - policemen
spacecraft - spacecraft
louse – lice
fish - fish 

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Letter -ex/-ix:
Final -ex/-ix becomes:

Examples: 
index – indices /indexes
matrix – matrices
appendix – appendices


Letter -is:
Final -is becomes:

Examples:
axis – axes
nemesis – nemeses
crisis – crises

Slide 7 - Diapositive

Letter -um:
Final um becomes -a, or just adds -s


Examples:

Datum – data
medium – media/ mediums
millennium – millennia
phenomenon - phenomena
spectrum – spectra
Letter -us:
Final -us becomes -i or -era or -ora or just adds -es

Examples:

alumnus – alumni
focus – foci
radius – radii
virus – viruses/virii
cactus – cactuses/cacti
fungus – fungi


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Unchanging Nouns:

Singular           Plural

aircraft             aircraft
elk                      elk
moose             moose
spacecraft     spacecraft
swine               swine
























sheep – sheep
deer – deer
cattle - cattle

Slide 9 - Diapositive

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.

Slide 10 - Diapositive

QUIZ

Slide 11 - Diapositive

Plural of:
A
shoe
B
shoes
C
schoenen
D
shoos

Slide 12 - Quiz

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

Slide 13 - Quiz

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

Slide 14 - Quiz

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

Slide 15 - Quiz

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

Slide 16 - Quiz

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

Slide 17 - Quiz

Plural of:
A
ganzen
B
goosen
C
gooses
D
geese

Slide 18 - Quiz

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

Slide 19 - Quiz

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

Slide 20 - Quiz

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

Slide 21 - Quiz

For extra help:

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