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Nouns: Nunber
Warm-up
Choose the correct plural for the
1. brush highlighted nouns.
a. brushs
a. monkeyes
3. life
monkeys C. monkeis
lives
b. lifes
4. address c. lifies
a/addresses b. addressies
C. addresss
5. ox
a. oxes
oxen C. oxies
6. tooth
a. gooses
b. goosies
8. sheep
Sgese
sheep b. sheepves C. sheepies
nen we talk about one person, animal, place or thing, we use singular nouns.When we are talk-
about two or more people, animals, places or things, we use plural nouns.
12. Certain nouns do not take the plural form. For example,
advice-advice f u r n i t u r e - f u r n i t u r e
example,
word.
For
the last
13. Plurals
of compound words are formcd by adding s to the first or
grandmother - grandmothers
father-in-law - fathers-in-law
the sentences.
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wordes in the dictionary.
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Read these words.
hair
ice steel oil
water
furniture musiC sand
These nouns
cannot be
counted.
Nouns that nnot be counted are called uncountable nouns.
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highlighted phrases, we have changed
uncountable nouns to
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