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Take a lesson from:
Ahhrnold, the Plural-
nator
All the rules and tricks you need to know to form PLURALSPLURALS.
“I take puny singular nouns and PLURAL-NATE THEM! Ha Ha!”
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My name is Ahhrnold, the Plural-nator, and I plural-nate puny
regular and irregular nouns and transform them into strong plurals.
I do this by adding specific letters
to the end of the singular noun.
BUT! there are rules to follow to
make sure that each noun has its
correct PLURAL FORM.PLURAL FORM.
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For regular nouns: 2 Rules2 Rules
Rule #1:Rule #1:For most puny regular nouns all I do is add an -S at the end to PUMP THEM UP!
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
consonant Add -scat- cats
chair – chairslook –looks
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Rule #2:Rule #2: For words that end in a "hissing" sound (-s, -z, -x, -ch, -sh), add an -es to form the plural.Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
s, x, ch or sh Add -esboss - bosses
tax - taxesbush - bushes
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I love to PLURAL-nate puny SINGULARREGULAR NOUNS !!!
How I enjoy turning those TRICKY IRREGULAR NOUNS from singular to
PLURALPLURAL!
They are more CHALLENGING having
7 rules!7 rules!
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Rule #1:Rule #1: If the word ends in a consonant plus -y, change the -y into -ie and add an -s to form the
plural.
consonant + yChange y to i
thenAdd -es
fly - fliestry - tries
curry - curries
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
For irregular nouns:
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Rule #2:Rule #2: If the word ends in a vowel plus -y (-ay, -ey, -iy, -oy, -uy), add an -s to the word.
vowel + y Add -skey – keysway - waysboy – boys
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Rule #3:Rule #3: For words that end in -is, change the -is to -es to make the
plural form.
-ischange –is to
-esthesis - theses
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Rule #4:Rule #4: Words that end in -f or -fe have plurals that end in -ves.
-f or -fechange –f or –fe
to-ves
knife - kniveswife – wives
life - liveself – elves
shelf – shelves
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Rule #5:Rule #5: Words that end in -o are formed by either adding -s or by adding -es.
-oadd –s or –es
studio - studiostaco – tacos
stereo – stereospotato – potatoestomato – tomatoes
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Rule #6: Rule #6: words that end with –us change the –us to -i
ends with -us Change -us to -i
cactus - cactinucleus -
nucleifocus - foci
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Rule #7: Rule #7: if the word ends with -on change –on to -a
ends with -on Change -on to -aphenomenon -
phenomenacriterion - criteria
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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there are those words that don’t have any rules, you just have to memorize them
ALL KINDS
Change the vowelor
Change the wordor
Add a different ending
man – menfoot – feetchild -childrenperson –peopletooth –teethmouse –mice
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And some words don’t change at all…
UnchangingSingular and plural
are the same
SheepDeerFish
Moose
I don’t like those words because I can’t PLURAL-nate them! ARGGGG!!!!
Noun ending Forming the plural Examples
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Now that you know how to form pluralsplurals out of those PUNY
singular regular and irregular nouns, you too can be a PLURAL-nator !
Just follow those rules, and if you ever get stuck, check the very
strong, the very heavy, DICTIONARY, before I come over there and PLURAL-NATEPLURAL-NATE YOU!!!
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Other links and activities:• Regular Nouns: Lesson & Activity
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/plural.htm
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_spelnoun.html
• Irregular Nouns: Lesson & Activity http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/irrplu.htm
http://www.clta.on.ca/EAOnline/GrammarCentral/reallyirregular.html
• Games:
http://fen.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/shtml.cgi?A1=../plurals/index.htmlhttp://www.quia.com/cc/67715.html