1 / 7

Plural Nouns

Plural Nouns. Plural means more than 1! There are several rules for making nouns plural. Rule #1. For most nouns, simply add an “s” to make the noun plural. Examples: birds, desks, girls, oceans, pencils, teachers. Rule #2.

wynne-keller
Download Presentation

Plural Nouns

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. Plural Nouns Plural means more than 1! There are several rules for making nouns plural.

  2. Rule #1 • For most nouns, simply add an “s” to make the noun plural. • Examples:birds, desks, girls, oceans, pencils, teachers

  3. Rule #2 • For nouns ending in ch, sh, ss, s, or x, add an –es to make the noun plural. • Examples: churches, foxes, bushes, buses, glasses, boxes

  4. Rule #3 • Nouns that end with a consonant and y, change the y to i and add –es. • Examples: city-cities, berry-berries, canary-canaries,

  5. Rule #4 • For nouns ending in a vowel and y, just add an s. • Examples: boy-boys, monkey-monkeys, donkey-donkeys

  6. Rule #5 • For some nouns, the word changes to a completely new word when forming the plural. • Example: tooth-teeth, child-children, goose-geese, cactus-cacti, foot-feet

  7. Rule #6 • For some nouns, the singular and plural form are the exact same! • Example: moose-moose, deer-deer, series-series

More Related