Содержание
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PLURALS
Подготовила преподаватель английского языка ГУО «Пинковичская средняя школа имени Якуба Коласа» Пинского района, Брестской области, Лящук Елена Геннадьевна
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+s
an apple-apples
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+ES(if nouns ending in –s,-ss,-ch,-x,-o)
a tomato-tomatoes
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BUT:
radio-radios piano-pianos photo-photos rhino-rhinos hippo-hippos video-videos
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Nouns ending in a vowel+Y take –s in the plural
a toy-toys
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Nouns ending in consonant+y, drop the –y and take –ies in the plural
a strawberry-strawberries y-i+es
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Nouns ending in –f or –fe, drop the f or fe and take –ves in the plural
a leaf-leaves -f/-fe-v+es
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BUT:
chiefs roofs safes cliffs beliefs scarf(ves) wharfs(ves) dwarfs(ves) hoofs(ves)
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IRREGULAR PLURALS:
a man-men a woman-women a child-children a foot-feet a tooth-teeth a goose-geese a mouse-mice a louse-lice an ox-oxen
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SOME NOUNS HAVE THE SAME singular and plural forms:
a fish-fish a deer-deer a sheep-sheep a trout-trout a swine-swine an aircraft-aircraft a means-means
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Some words which come from foreign languages have special plurals:
Analysis-analyses Appendix-appendices/appendixes Bacterium-bacteria Basis-bases Cactus-cacti/cactuses Crisis-crises Criterion-criteria Diagnosis-diagnoses Formula-formulae/formulas Fungus-fungi/funguses Hypothesis-hypotheses Medium-media/mediums Phenomenon-phenomena
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Noun+preposition+noun, we add –s to the first noun
a mother-in-law- mothers-in-law
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If the first word is man or woman
a woman-doctor- women-doctors
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Noun+adverb, we add –s to the first word
passer-by-passers-by
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If there is no noun-stem in the compound –s is added to the last element
Forget-me-not-forget-me-nots
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Uncountable nouns(are used in singular):
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Always plural:
people arms cattle ashes trousers barracks jeans clothes shorts congratulations shoes outskirts gloves police pajamas riches tights stairs earrings surroundings scissors wages pliers goods
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A group of english nouns that can be used as countable or uncountable with a difference in meaning:
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Collective nouns that can be both singular and plural:
Army Audience Class Committee Company Crew Crowd Government Group Faculty Family
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TEam
Is singular when it is regarded as one unit: Our team is winning. Is plural when we mean each member of this unit individually: The team are going back to their homes.
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Russian nouns that are always plural in russian but are singular and plural in English.
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