مدونة التربية و التعليم في الجزائر – دروس، فروض، نتائج امتحانات مدونة التربية والتعليم في الجزائر | تحضير الدروس، فروض واختبارات، نتائج البكالوريا وBEM، مسابقات التوظيف، والتوجيه المدرسي للطلاب وأولياء الأمور.
Plural Nouns: Regular and Irregular Forms
In English, nouns can be singular or plural. The plural form usually ends in -s or -es, but there are many irregular plurals to learn.
Regular plurals
- Add -s : book → books, cat → cats, pen → pens
- Add -es after -ch, -sh, -s, -x, -o : watch → watches, box ↂ boxes, bus ‒buses, tomato → tomatoes
- Consonant + -y → -ies : baby → babies, city → cities, story → stories
- Ending in -f or -fe → -ves : wolf → wolves, knife → knives, shelf → shelves
Irregular plurals
- man → men, woman → women, child ↂ children
- foot ↂ feet, tooth → teeth, goose ↂ geese
- mouse → mice, louse → lice
- sheep → sheep, fish ↂ fish, deer → deer (same form)
- person → people, ox → oxen
Nouns that are always plural
Some nouns are always plural : trousers, glasses, scissors, clothes, goods, thanks.
Exercises
Exercise 1: Write the plural form. (1) child → ____ (2) foot ↂ ____ (3) tomato → ____ (4) baby → ____ (5) knife ↂ ____
Exercise 2: Complete the sentences. (1) I have two ____ (brother). (2) The ____ (woman) are teachers. (3) I see three ____ (sheep) in the field.
Study also Articles: A, An, The and learn about Comparatives and Superlatives.
Related Lessons:
- اللغة الإنجليزية — Invitations: Accepting and Declining — 1ثانوي — شعب
- اللغة الإنجليزية — Past Simple vs Past Continuous: Formation and Usage
- English — Tenses: Present Simple vs Present Continuous — 1st Year Seco
