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1. Just add an –s 2. Words ending with 3. Words ending with 4.

Words ending with


s, ss, sh, ch, x add –es consonant + y change consonant + o add –es
e.g. rose
e.g. bus – buses into –ies e.g. potato – potatoes
roses
glass – glasses e.g. butterfly – tomato – tomatoes
brush – brushes butterflies hero – heroes
book
church – churches country – countries negro - negroes
books
box - boxes

5. Irregular plurals 6. Some words ending 7. Some words are 7. Some words are
e.g. man – men in f or fe make the always used in the always used in the
woman - women plural in -ves plural. singular.
tooth – teeth e.g. pyjamas e.g. news
e.g. life – lives
mouse – mice trousers information
thief – thieves
child – children glasses furniture
half – halves
ox – oxen scissors advice

A) Write the plural of the words.

fly bench zebra lion yourself

Flies Benches Zebras Lions Yourselves

leaf baby radio knife torch

Leaves Babies Radios Knives Torches

B) Write the sentences in the plural.

1. There is a young man sitting on a bench. There are young people sitting on the benches.
2. He has got his first job. He has got first jobs.
3. He works as a steward in the company. He works as a steward in the companies.
4. One of these days he saw a mouse running throw the waiting room. One of these days saw a mouse
running through the waiting rooms.
5. The lady who was sitting there with her child was afraid of the little animal. The lady who was sitting there
with her child was afraid of the little animals.
6. The child was eating a sandwich. The child was eating a sandwiches.
7. The lady was reading the newspaper. The lady was reading the newspapers
8. She had a pencil on her hand. She had a pencil on her hands.
9. There was a basket with a cherry on the ground. There was a basket with a cherries on the ground.
10. Next to the basket there was a wooden chair. Next to the basket there was wooden chairs.
C) Identify with S or P the underlined words as singular (S) or plural (P), and then write the word in the
opposite number as in the example.

1. There is a Romanic church in the village I was born. S ____churches______


2. Many people come to visit every year. P ____person_________
3. Men and women today share their domestic tasks. P Man, Woman
4. The books are on the table. P Book
5. The police caught the thief at the crime scene and sent him to prison. S Thieves
6. The babies are sleeping. P Baby
7. There are many butterflies in spring. P Butterfly
8. We went to the supermarket and bought two loaves of bread. P Bread

D) Group the following words under the correct heading according to their plural formation.

wolves glasses rabbits firemen secretaries toothbrushes

dishes toys zebras flowers matches mice

teeth negroes families peaches classes pencils computers

bottles shelves strawberries raspberries notebooks carnations birds

add an –s add –es consonant + y irregular plurals make the plural


change into –ies in -ves

flowers Classes Families Teeth Shelves


pencils Peaches Strawberries firemen wolves
toys
glasses Secretaries carnations
rabbits raspberries
matches
zebras
computers toothbrushes
notebooks dishes
birds negroes
bottles

E) Spot ten (10) mistakes in the text. Then underline them and write the correct word on the lines.
Garden
THE ENGLISH AND THE GARDENS Baby
Women
English persons like gardenes and parks very much. On Sundays they take their Men
childs with them and we can see mans, womans, girls, boies and even babys in Child
Boy
their prams very happy breathing fresh air. Older people read newspapers,
Toy
magazines or even lifes of famous people. The green leaves of the trees protect
Pram
them from the sun. Red buses run in the streets. That little baby, smiling with his Magazine
tooths, plays with his toies. Leaf

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