Plural of nouns

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What will we talk about today...?

Make one picture of these items
5 matches, 3 knives, some books, and some keys,
but also 2 potatoes, and a drawing of two fish.

Plural of nouns

Do ex 6.1 p 75+ grammar grid p76

Bekijk de book covers en annalyseer de meervoudsvormen die gebruikt worden. Kun je nadien op pagina 76 het schema aanvullen

one pepper
two ...

1. peppers
2. pepperes
3. pepper's
4. pepper

one olive
thirty ...

1. olivees
2. olives
3. olive's
4. oliven

General rule

+s

one peach
two ...

one box
twenty ...

nouns that end in a hissing sound

+ es

one superhero
ten ...

1. superheroes
2. superhero's
3. superheros
4. superheroos

1 kilo
100 ...

1. kilo's
2. kiloes
3. kiloz
4. kilos

one potato
three ...

one tomato
three ...

one volcano
three ...

nouns that end in -o

+ s OR + es

one knife
four ...

one scarf
six ...

nouns that end in -f

> f/fe > ves

one strawberry
hundreds of ...

one toy
six ...

1. toy's
2. toies
3. toyz
4. toys

one butterfly
two ...

one boy
three ...

1. boyz
2. boy's
3. boys
4. boies

nouns that end in consonant +y

> y > ies

one man
two ...

1. mans
2. mens
3. men
4. mannen

one woman
four ...

1. womans
2. women
3. womens
4. womennen

one child
six ...

1. childs
2. childrens
3. children
4. child's

one tooth
many ...

1. teeth
2. tooths
3. teeths
4. tooth's

one foot
two ...

1. foots
2. foot's
3. feets
4. feet

one mouse
one hundred ...

1. mouses
2. mice
3. mousen
4. mouse's

one fish
many ...

1. fish's
2. fish
3. fishes
4. fishen

one sheep
three ...

1. sheep
2. sheeps
3. sheep's
4. shoop

What is the plural of "person"?

Just a reminder:
never use 's in plural forms!

apply your knowledge

Prepare & correct ex 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1

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