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    The document discusses grammar rules for nouns in Standard American English. It defines nouns and covers topics like singular and plural nouns, common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, and irregular plural nouns. It examines pluralization rules for nouns from different languages including Latin, Greek, Old English, and others. The document provides many examples to illustrate rules for forming regular and irregular plural nouns.

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    Standard American English

    Grammar

    What is Grammar?

    A set of conventions and rules that govern language.

    Context dependent

    The Noun

    Basically Anything

    People or Living things , Places Things or Ideas

    Singular and Plural Nouns

    Regular Plural

    Dogs

    Cats

    Dinosaurs

    Whales

    Irregular Plural

    Leaf – leaves

    Child - children

    Fungus - fungi

    Mouse - mice

    Sheep – sheep
    Common and Proper Nouns

    Common Proper

    city Chicago

    frog Kermit

    river Nile

    mountain Kilimanjaro

    General Specific - Always Capitalized

    Capitalized when they begin sentences

    Mountains are my favourite.

    Kilimanjaro is my favourite mountain.

    Concrete and Abstract Nouns

    Dog ball sadness happiness freedom permission liberty injustice

    Cliff icecream

    Physical/ Not Physical

    connotation

    The Irregular Plural Part 1

    Regular Plural Irregular Plural

    dog Leaf - leaves


    Loaf - loaves

    Calf – calves

    Singular f – ve

    en – ending

    child > children

    ox > oxen

    box > boxes

    brother/sister brethren sistren brothers sisters

    Old English – Germanic

    en - s - r

    Base plural

    Sheep

    Fish

    Bison

    Moose

    Spacecraft

    Tuna

    Salmon

    Cod

    Shrimp

    Deer

    – special exception – for individual species of fish – fish


    Fish - individual

    Marty caught thirty fish. prodigious

    Marta studies thirty fishes

    Pl. The fish are plentiful this season.

    Si The fish is delicious

    The bison migrate west

    athwart

    The Mutant Plural

    Only 7 words

    Vowel sounds change

    Word

    Singular Plural

    Foot feet

    Woman women

    Man men

    Tooth teeth

    Goose geese

    Mouse mice

    Louse lice

    Foreign Plural

    Latin Greek

    Some depends on situation you’re in


    Fungus – informal funguses | formal fungi – scientific context

    Cactus – cactuses | cacti

    Thesis

    Criteria

    Derivation of a word

    final

    Language Change Singular Irr. Plural Reg. Plural

    Latin a > ae larva larvae larvas

    Antenna antennae antennas

    Latin us > I fungus fungi funguses

    Latin um > a datum data

    Latin ex > ices index indices indexes

    Matrix matrices

    Greek is > es thesis theses thesises

    Greek on > a criterion criteria

    Crisis – crises

    Person - people

    Vowel Harmony

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