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    Glory Ann Rodríguez

    Plural Nouns
    To most nouns add s Consonant + o add es f/fe use ves
    orange - oranges tomato - tomatoes life - lives

    To ch, sh, s, x, z add es vowel + y add s consonant + y use ies


    kiss - kisses key - keys berry - berries

    Special Plural Nouns


    Some nouns change and others can stay the same
    in plural. These are irregular plural nouns.

    Change Same
    1. tooth - teeth 1. deer - deer
    2. mouse - mice 2. sheep - sheep
    3. quiz - quizzes 3. fish - fish
    4. datum - data
    5. woman - women Fishes can be plural with
    6. man - men more than one species of

    7. goose - geese fish. Fish can be singular

    8. ox - oxen or plural of the same


    species.
    9. foot - feet
    10. person - people
    11. child - children

    Plural pronunciation
    For words that end with the sounds /p/, /t/, /k/ and /f/: /s/
    lamp - lamps wallet - wallets book - books giraffe - giraffes
    For words that end with the sounds /s/, /x/, /z/, /ch/, /sh/, /j/, /ge/ : /Iz/
    bus - buses box - boxes exercise - exercises
    watch - watches brush - brushes orange - oranges
    For words that end in vowel sounds and the rest of the consonants: /z/
    telephone - telephones eraser - erasers
    bag - bags mosquito - mosquitoes

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