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

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

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

Plurals - Nouns with (e)f

Nouns that end with -f or -ef get -ves

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

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

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

one strawberry

two strawberries

one strawberry

two _____________

one bus

three ______________

one bus

three buses

What are the plural forms of:
toy, cookie, tooth, tomato? (check your answers in ex. 33a!)

1. toys, cookies, tooths, tomatoes
2. toy's, cookies, teeth, tomatoes
3. toys, cookies, teeth, tomatoes
4. toys, cookies, teeth, tomatos

What are the plural forms of:
university, sausage, foot, bucket?
(ex. 33a)

1. universitys, sausages, feet, buckets
2. universities, sausages, feet, buckets
3. universities, sausages, foots, buckets
4. universities, sausages, feet, bucket's

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

Answers ex. 33b

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