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How To Form The Plurals

Here are the plurals of the words: I. Please convert these words into plurals.  Man men  Child children  Mouse mice  Dictionary dictionaries  Flower flowers  Potato potatoes  Bee bees II. Please write these sentences into interrogative form.  The students are learning English. Are the students learning English?  Sandra and Lisa are coming tomorrow. Are Sandra and Lisa coming tomorrow?  The Angel`s fall and the Avila are in Venezuela. Are the Angel`

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How To Form The Plurals

Here are the plurals of the words: I. Please convert these words into plurals.  Man men  Child children  Mouse mice  Dictionary dictionaries  Flower flowers  Potato potatoes  Bee bees II. Please write these sentences into interrogative form.  The students are learning English. Are the students learning English?  Sandra and Lisa are coming tomorrow. Are Sandra and Lisa coming tomorrow?  The Angel`s fall and the Avila are in Venezuela. Are the Angel`

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How to form the plurals

 Generally, you add an S at the end of the noun.

 All the words that end with S, SS, SH, CH, X, O, will have
ES added at the end of the word.

 All the words that end with Y after a consonant, the Y will
be replaced with IES.

 All the words that end with Y after a vowel will be


added an S.

 All the words that end with an F and FE (with some exceptions)
will be replaced by VES.

 All the words ending with GE will have an S added at the end
of the word (the pronunciation will change to ¨yis¨ at the end).

 Words that change without rules (they don´t follow any rule.
They are also called IRREGULAR PLURALS):

MAN - MEN
WOMAN - WOMEN
CHILD - CHILDREN
FOOT - FEET
TOOTH - TEETH
MOUSE – MICE
PERSON – PEOPLE
OX – OXEN
GOOSE – GEESE
Dragon _________________ Baggage _______________

Mouse _________________ Bus ____________________

Key _________________ Princess _________________

Boy __________________ Carpenter _______________

Story __________________ Actor __________________

Arrow __________________ Ticket __________________

Horse __________________ Actress _________________

Book __________________ Bee ________________

Orange __________________ Electrician ________________

Service __________________ Tomato ________________

Plate __________________ Truck ________________

Fog __________________ Cloud ________________

Grape __________________ Water ________________

Chicken __________________ Ox ________________

Building __________________ Business ________________

Park __________________ Bridge ________________

Church __________________ Ball _______________

Room __________________ Package ________________

Airplane ___________________ Cream ________________

Juice ___________________ Dictionary_________________


 Please review these demonstratives with the class

Leaves Books

These are leaves. These are books.


Are these leaves? Are these books?
Yes, they are leaves. Yes, they are books.
No, they are not leaves. No, they are not books.

Students Papers
__________________ These are papers.
Are these students? ________________
___________________ ________________
No, they are not students. ________________

EXERCISE
I. Please convert these words into plurals.

 Man _________
 Child ____________
 Mouse __________
 Dictionary _____________
 Flower ____________
 Potato ____________
 Bee ___________

II. Please write these sentences into interrogative form.

 The students are learning English.


__________________________________?
 Sandra and Lisa are coming tomorrow.
____________________________________?
 The Angel`s fall and the Avila are in Venezuela.
_____________________________________________?
 The keys are made. _____________________?
 The tickets are purchased. ________________________?

III. Please write sentences into negative form.

 Those are Egyptian pyramids. ____________________________.


 Those are exotic cars. _____________________________.
 These are excellent places. _____________________________.
 Those are fishing boats. _____________________________.

IV. Please correct these sentences.

 Those laborer are coming tomorrow.


_________________________________.
 There is many cow in the field.
______________________________.
 These car can be purchased very cheap.
_____________________________________.
 The beautiful birds is found in most park throughout Venezuela.
_______________________________________________________.
______________________ ______________________
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_____________________ _______________________

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