Parts of the Speech Plural Nouns
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This document provides a summary of plural nouns and possessive nouns in English: 1. Plural nouns are formed by adding "s" or "es" depending on certain rules. Common rules include adding "s" to words ending in consonants and "es" to words ending in "s", "ss", "sh", "ch", "x", or "z". 2. Possessive nouns are formed by adding an apostrophe and "s" ('s) to singular nouns and plural nouns not ending in "s". Nouns ending in "s" add only an apostrophe. 3. Practice exercises are provided to test understanding of plural and possessive noun
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Parts of the Speech Plural Nouns
- 1. Escuela de Educación Continua Repaso para la Prueba de Evaluación y Admisión Universitaria (College Board) INGLÉS Parts of The Speech Plural Nouns Preparado por Prof. Carmen Cembalest, Enero 1994 Revisado por Prof. Thelvenitsie Hernández, Junio 2006
- 2. Este manual es propiedad del Campus Virtual de la Escuela de Educación Continua de la Universidad Metropolitana. El mismo no puede ser reproducido parcial ni totalmente sin la autorización expresa del Decano Asociado del Campus Virtual de la Escuela de Educación Continua de la Universidad Metropolitana. Escuela de Educación Continua de UMET, enero 2012
- 3. 2. Plural Forms of Nouns: Nouns can be singular or plural. There are several rules that you should follow when changing a noun from singular to plural form. 1. General rule: most nouns form the plural by adding –s. Example: girl - girls window – windows 2. ES rule: nouns ending in s, ss, sh, ch, z, or x form the plural by adding es. Example: bus – buses church – churches 3. Consontant + y: nouns ending in y preceded by a consonant, form that plural by changing y to i and adding es. Example: story – stories lady – ladies 4. Vowel + y: nouns ending in y preceded by a vowel form the plural by adding s. Example: boy – boys toy – toys 5. Vowel + o: nouns ending in o preceded by a vowel, form the plural by adding s. Example: radio – radios patio – patios 6. Consonant + o: nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant add es to form the plural. (Except in musical terms) Example: tomato – tomatoes hero – heroes Exception: piano – pianos solo – solos 7. F or FE rule: nouns ending in F or FE change to VES to form the plural. Example: leaf – leaves shelf – shelves life – lives
- 4. Exceptions: sheriff – sheriffs staff – staffs roof – roofs belief – beliefs safe – safes chief – chiefs 8. Compound nouns: they form the plural in the first word when separated by a hyphen. Compound nouns written as one word or as two separate words form the plural in the last word. Example: mother-in-law – mothers-in-law brother-in-law – brothers-in-law birdhouse – birdhouses high school – high schools 9. Irregular Plural Forms: Examples: child – children mouse – mice man – men goose – geese woman – women foot – feet ox – oxen tooth – teeth 10. Some nouns keep the same form in both singular and plural. Examples: fish, sheep, Chinese, deer, series, salmon, moose, trout, fowl Practice Exercise II Choose the correct plural form for the following sentences. 1. Those are sharp _____________________________. a. knifes b. knives c. knife d. knifs 2. The __________________ are yelling out loud. a. children b. childrens c. childes d. childs
- 5. 3. There are three ___________________ around the corner. a. laundrys b. laundries c. laundryies d. laundryes 4. My father bought three __________________ of bread. a. loaves b. loafs c. loafes d. loafies 5. My car killed two ________________________. a. mouses b. mouse c. mice d. mices 6. How many ________________________did you put in the stew? a. potato b. potatos c. potatoses d. potatoes 7. My two _____________________ visited us last month. a. sister-in-law b. sisters-in-law c. sisters-in-laws d. sister-in-law 8. There are many _______________ restaurants in my town. a. Chinese b. Chineses c. Chineseses d. Chinesies
- 6. 9. I put the ________________________ in the sink. a. dishes b. dishies c. disheses d. dishs 10. The two ____________________ performed beautifully. a. sopranoes b. sopranos c. sopranoses d. sopranosies 11. The man had three ____________________. a. wife b. wifes c. wives d. wiveses 12. The singer sang two ____________________ at the concert. a. soloes b. solos c. soloses d. solo 13. They found some _______________________ in the basement. a. boxes b. boxesses c. boxies d. boxeses 14. She wants to eat some __________________________. a. sandwich b. sandwichs c. sandwiches d. sandwichies
- 7. 15. How many ______________________ are there in your department? a. attorneys-at-laws b. attorneys-at-law c. attorneies-at-laws d. attorney-at-law 16. Mary drank four ______________________ of water after dinner. a. glasses b. glass c. glassies d. glasseses 17. My neighbor cut all the ______________________ around his house. a. busheses b. bush c. bushes d. bushies 18. He had to feed all of the _______________________________. a. monkies b. monkeyes c. monkey d. monkeys 3. Possessive Form of Nouns: Nouns also indicate possession or ownership. a. To form the possessive of a singular or plural noun not ending in S, add an apostrophe and s. (‘s) Examples: Marta’s book The children’s toys b. To form the possessive of a singular or plural noun ending in s. add apostrophe after the s. (s’) Examples: Charles’ car The boys’ shirts c. When referring to inanimate objects, use the of phrase. Correct: The roof of the house. Incorrect: The house’s roof.
- 8. Practice Exercise III Choose the correct possessive form of the noun. 1. The ___________________ is holding a meeting at the San Juan Hotel. a. women club’s b. women’s club c. womens’ club d. women’s club’s 2. The _____________________ looks dirty. a. floor’s carpet b. carpet’s floor c. carpet of the floor d. floors’ carpet 3. _______________________ is brand new. a. Maria car’s b. Maria’s car c. Maria’s car’s d. car of Maria 4. The ___________________ are empty. a. babies’ bottles b. babie’s bottles c. babies’ bottles’ d. babies bottles’ 5. ___________________ house is near ours. a. Carmen’s and Pedro’s b. Carmen’s and Pedro c. Carmen’s and Pedros’ d. Carmen and Pedro’s 6. ______________________ are expensive. a. men’s shoes b. shoes of the men c. mens’ shoes d. men’s shoes’ 7. He talked to my __________________________. a. father-in-law’s lawyer b. father’s-in-law lawyer c. father-in-laws’ lawyer d. father-in-law’s lawyer’s
- 9. 8. ________________________ is an executive secretary. a. Manuel’s wife’s b. Manuel’s wife c. Manuel wife’s d. Manuels’ wife 9. The _________________________ dresses cost a lot of money. a. ladie’s dresses b. ladies’ dresses’ c. ladies dresses’ d. ladies’ dresses 10. The ________________________ are loose. a. book’s pages b. books’ pages c. pages of the book d. pages’ of the book 11. Those are my ________________________. a. student’s notebooks b. students’ notebooks c. students’ notebooks’ d. students notebooks’ 12. The _____________________ is locked. a. bathroom’s door b. door of the bathroom c. door’s of the bathroom d. bathrooms’ door 13. ___________________________ is near our. a. Paula house’s b. Paula’s house c. Paula’s house’s d. house of Paula 14. The ______________________ are on the table. a. women’s umbrella b. women’s umbrella’s c. women umbrella’s d. umbrellas of the women 15. ______________________ was wrecked. a. Charles’ s car b. Charles’ car’s c. Charles’ car d. Charles car’s
- 10. 16. The ______________________ is very high. a. house of the ceiling b. ceiling of the house c. ceiling’s house d. house’s ceiling 17. __________________ is an engineer. a. Maria’s husband b. Maria’s husband’s c. husband of Maria d. Maria husband’s 18. _____________________ rented a house at the beach. a. Mr. Arias’s daughters’ b. Mr. Arias’ daughters c. Mr. Arias daughters’ d. Mr. Arias’ daughters’ I.