regular and irregular plurals nouns
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REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PLURALS NOUNS
By Miriam Gomez
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INTRODUCTIONThis is a course to understand and apply grammar in context (noun and irregular plural nouns ) for communication.
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OBJECTIVE Understanding the grammar rules that apply
to Nouns and Irregular Plural Nouns.
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REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS Regular plurals: 1. We form the plural of most nouns by
adding –s to the singular noun.Example: book books girl girls
2. Some regular plurals require changes in the spelling of the noun before we add –s.
Example: dish dishes factory factories knife knives
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IRREGULAR PLURALS Some nouns form their plural by changing their
vowels.Singular Plural foot feet goose geese man men mouse mice woman women
Some nouns form their plural by adding a syllable. Singular Plural child children ox oxen
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IRREGULAR PLURALS Some nouns have the same singular and
plural forms.Singular Pluralaircraft aircraftdeer deerfish fishoffspring offspringseries seriesspacecraft spacecraftspecies species
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IRREGULAR PLURALS Some nouns that come from Latin or Greek
have plural endings that come from those languages.
Singular Pluralbacterium bacteriacactus cacticurriculum curriculafocus focifungus fungimedium mediamemorandum memorandathesis theses
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IRREGULAR PLURALS Some nouns have only a plural form. We can
also use a pair of before these noun.
Those jeans look great on you.That pair of jeans looks great on you.
Pluraljeanspajamaspantsshortstrousers.
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IRREGULAR PLURALS Some nouns end in – s but are not plural.
Economics is interesting to me.Singularnewspoliticsmathematicsathleticsphysicsrabies
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IRREGULAR PLURALS The plural of person is usually people (not
persons), but we can use persons in legal contexts.
I know a person who works for your father.I know some people who work for your father.
The person who had broken into a store was arrested.Three persons who had broken into a store were arrested.
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ASSIGNMENT Complete the sentences with the plural form of the nouns
in parentheses.
Diego Grande is eighty-nine years old. He is very tall and has a large (foot) _______, a big nose, and no (tooth) _____ at all. His (hobby) ___________ are taking (photo) _________ and fixing old (watch) __________. He has several (pet)___________: three (mouse) ________, five (fish)____________, and two (canary) __________. He had two (wife) _________ during his life, but they both died. His three (child) _________ are all grown up and now have (life) _________ of their own.
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APPENDIX 1 SPELLING RULES FOR ENDINGS
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APPENDIX 2 IRREGULAR VERBS