1 / 13

Singular and Plural

Singular and Plural. Singular. We add a or an before the Singular countable Noun. 1- We add a to the nouns which start with consonant letter a b ook a d og a t eacher a c ar.

salma
Download Presentation

Singular and Plural

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Singular and Plural Singular

  2. We add a or an before the Singular countable Noun 1- We add a to the nouns which start with consonant letter abook adog ateacher acar • 2- We add an to the nouns which start with vowel letteranapple anidea anorange anegg • 3- We add a to the nouns which start with u and pronounced as u (iu) a university aunion aunit • 4- We add an to the nouns which start with silent h followed by vowel letteranhour anhonour

  3. Plural To change nouns from singular to plural we do the following: 1- Add s to most nouns book booksstar stars Planet planetscar cars 2- Add es to nouns which end with s / ss /sh / ch / x / o boxboxeswatchwatches glassglassestomatotomatoes

  4. Plural 3- Nouns which end with consonant followed by y we change the y to i and then we add es Partypartiescountrycountries 4- Nouns which end with vowel (a-e-i-o-u ) followed by y we just add s Playplaysboyboys 5- Most nouns which end with f or fe we change it to v and then we add es wolfwolveswifewives Lifelivesthiefthieves

  5. Plural 6- There are some irregular plurals such as:

  6. Pronouns Pronoun comes instead of noun In English Language there are singular and plural pronouns as it is shown in the following table

  7. The present Simple of verb to (Be) Verb be ( is , are , am ) We change Verb be to is or are or am according to the subject as it’s shown in the following table

  8. Examples 1- I am a teacher 2- He is a football player 3- My friend is from Jeddah 4- Cars are red 5- The sky is blue 6- They are good 7- Sami and Ali are from Jordan 8- We are humans 9- The boys are lost 10- English is an easy language

  9. Note Verb to be can be written in long form (as the previous examples) or in short form (contraction) as this: 1- I’m a student. 2- He’s a good teacher. 3- she’s a nurse. 4- You’re a smart boy. 5- We’re friends. 6- They’re good teachers.

  10. Negative of verb to be We can make negative of verb to be by adding not after verb to be and it could be in long form or in short form as the following:

  11. Noun + is + noun 1- A catis an animal 2- Aliis a student 3- Paulais a girl 4- Aprinteris a machine 5- Aschoolis a building 6- Achairisfurniture 7- loveisfeeling 8- Acaris a machine

  12. Noun + are + nounNoun and noun + are + noun 1- Catsareanimals 2- Ducks are birds 3- Jazzan and Jeddah arecities 4- Saudi Arabia and Jordan arecountries 5- Bees and ants arebugs 6- Schoolsarebuildings 7- Elephantsareanimals

  13. Noun + be + adjective 1- Heishandsome 2- Theyaregood 3- It’snice 4- Samiisa strong fighter 5- TheyareSaudis 6- IamJordanian 7- The lemon isyellow 8- Saraishappy 9- Iamsad

More Related