Presentation about Rules to follow in pluralizing nouns

2. What do you see?
A bird

3. What do you see?
2 birds

5. Tell me why.
chair-chairs
fox-foxes

6. Most nouns,
We add “s”.

7. Now you try!
ant
bird
pen
book
s
s
s
s

8. Nouns that end with -s, -ss,
-sh, -ch, -x
We add “es”.

9. Now you try!
dish
box
dress
watch
es
es
es
es

10. Tell me why.
tomato-tomatoes
radio-radios

11. Nouns that end with a consonant + o
We add es

12. Now you try!
potato
hero
echo
es
es
es photoes??

13. Except:

14. Nouns that end with a vowel + o
We add s

15. Now you try!
zoo
stereo
video
kangaroo
s
s
s
s

16. Tell me why.
baby-babies
boy-boys

17. Nouns that end with a consonant + y
Change “y” to “i” and add es

18. Now you try!
cit
stor
part
countr
es
es
es
es
y
y
y
y
i
i
i
i

19. Nouns that end with –f and -fe,
Change f/fe to v and add “s”.

20. Now you try!
wi
kni
wol
li
es
es
es
es
fe
fe
f
fe
v
v
v
v

25. Most of these nouns
are usually plural. Give an example.

26. Pronunciation
/s/ /Iz/ /z/
after /k, f, p, t/ after s-sound after all other sounds
books
parts
cats
parks
chiefs
chefs
pencil cases
pages
matches
marches
classes
dogs
babies
sisters
pens
days
toys