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Nouns: Nunber
Warm-up
Choose the correct plural for the
1. brush highlighted nouns.
a. brushs

2. monkey brushes c. brushies

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

teeth b. tooths C. toothes


7. goose

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.
1, Correct

. The mouses ate all the cheese.

The i c e a l t a l tRe cherse


b. The leafs are falling from the tree.
tRe
aAtaves a s _
falling_fim
C.My father can play the pianoes very well.
play ke pranas VeH
Myaes Can hell

all his lambies.


d. Michael lost
latnbs
michaeLost al _Kw
did you eat?

ded geti eat


sandwichs
e. How many

andecicAes
toc Aany
wordes in the dictionary.
f. Check the dictionale-
Re o8ds_i Re
Check
g.
The thiefs were
chased by dogies.
Kaceal TRedez=
be Re
ese
have long leges.
h. Flamingos have log9s*
Planingas/Flamitgae
in thehall. furnitures
and the
the balcony
i. Keep the boxs in
in TRe alcoa¢
Re a/con
boreL
the uRnifLL
KestKRe
Keep
and Re
All the
womans
wore green
sarees.

2xees
j.
620meD ACOAe QAen
Ke
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.

3. Say whether the


highlighted
ighted nouns
ouns are countable or uncountable.
a
a.
The children are
playing in the garden.
b. Jitu does not like to drink milk.
Cocnfable
C. She wants to
become a scientist.
LADCOcLatale
d. I
prefer tea over coffee. CocLAta ble
e.
Drivers must be careful at night. LDCccAteke
f.We need
some glue to fix the vase.
Cocuntable
g. The classroom has many
windows. LADCOntable
h. I
brought three bottles in that
bag. COatable
i. Please pass me the cheese. Cocntasle
i. The waiters in the
restaurant are
very professional. CADCOntaBle
these phrases.
icce of advice
Cocnfa 6le
af of bread
5s of juice

g the
highlighted phrases, we have changed
uncountable nouns to
ve ic a wwrd countable nq
nounc

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