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Plurals
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Troublemakers
house – houses box - boxes mouse – mice ox - oxen
hero – heroes safe - safes
banjo – banjos knife - knives
cupful – cupfuls foot - feet passerby – passersby tooth - teeth
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Nouns that stay the same
moose deer species sheep series swine
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Weirdos
basis – bases crisis – crises criterion – criteria nucleus – nuclei stimulus – stimuli datum - data
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Rule 1
Usually add s: wave – waves hat - hats
S
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Rule 2
If the word ends in o, usually add es: hero – heroes potato - potatoes
es
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Rule 3
If the word ends in s, x, z, ch, or sh, add es: glass – glasses church – churches box – boxes bush - bushes
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Rule 4
If the word ends in y and there’s a vowel before the y, add s: play – plays monkey - monkeys
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Rule 5
If the word ends in y and there’s a consonant before the y, change the y to I and add es: party – parties candy - candies
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Rule 6
If a proper noun ends in y, just add s: the Kennedy family – the Kennedys the Finley family – the Finleys
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Rule 7
If a compound noun has a main noun in it, add the s to the main noun: one father-in-law – two fathers-in-law one chief of police – two chiefs of police
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Rule 8
If a compound noun has no main noun in it, add the s at the end: one follow-up – two follow-ups one trade-in – two trade-ins
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Practice
Another game uses marshmallowes and toothpicks.
He spends hours watching the gorillas and monkies.
Little daisys grow beside the stream. Eating our lunchs outdoors, we could
hear the bees. My grandfather plays dominoes on his
friends’ patios.