Comprensión Lectora lengua extranjera II

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AIM: Identifying the nouns and the plural of regular and irregular ones.
Indicators of Profit: the students are able to:
- Identify plural of regular and irregular nouns.
- Apply plural of nouns in sentences and paragraphs.
Nouns and its plural forms : A noun is a word used to name a person, animal, thing or situation; for example:
MAN, BOY, DOG, BOOK, CHARITY, JOHN, CLASS, MOVIES, in so forth. There are 3 kinds of nouns.
1. PROPER: It belongs to a person, animal or thing in particular: God, Peter, France, Colombia.
2. COMMON: It belongs to any kind of thing: Father, Pupil, City, Cat, School, Computer.
3. COLLECTIVE: It represents a group or collection of individuals: Army, Fleet, Crowd, class.
Most of nouns form its plural adding S; ex: Door  doors; House  houses; student  students.
However it exits some special rules in different cases. So:
1. If the word ends in O, CH, SH, S, Z, X, add ES to plural form: Grass  Grasses; Gas  Gases; Box  Boxes;
Watch  Watches; Tomato  Tomatoes; Brush  Brushes.
2. If the noun ends in Y preceded by consonant, it changes Y by I and add ES. Ex. City  Cities; Fly  Flies,
Country  Countries.
3. About 12 nouns ending in F and 3 in FE, form its plural in VES. Ex: Beef  Beeves; Calf  Calves, Elf –Elves…(
Half, Leaf, Loaf, Self, Shelf, Staff, Thief, Wolf, Wharf, Knife, Life, Wife).
4. Some nouns have the same form in singular and plural. Ex. Deer, Sheep, Swine, Fish, Sail, yoke.
5. Some nouns only use Plural form. Ex: Alms, Ashes, Drawers, Suspenders, Scissors, Thanks, news, Trousers.
6. The word brother  brothers; but when it is a community we use BRETHREN.
7. Some nouns have irregular form in plural. EX: Man  Men; Woman  Women; Ox  Oxen; Child 
Children; Goose  Geese; Tooth  Teeth; Foot  Feet; Mouse  Mice; Louse  Lice; Datum  Data;
Medium  Media; Analysis Analyses; Bacterium  Bacteria; Thesis  Theses; Parenthesis  Parentheses.

EXERCISE: 1. Put the following sentence in plural for (all parts that you can put in plural form)
a. He has a brush for his tooth. = They have brushes for their teeth
b. The sheep is big. =The sheep are big
c. My uncle gives alms in the church. = My uncles give alms in the churches
d. Decide, you use knife or you eat with your hand. =Decide, you use knives or you eat with your hands.
e. The leaf falls from the tree. = The leaves fall from the trees.
f. By all means, He neither brings the violin nor the guitar. =By all means, they neither bring the violins nor the
guitars.
g. The film is only for man. =The films are only for men.
h. He doesn’t eat tomato. =They don't eat tomatoes.
i. The child runs because he saw a mouse. =The children run because they saw mice.
j. Does your computer have a large datum? =Do your computers have large data?.
k. Did you understand the thesis the teacher explained? =Did you understand the theses that the teachers
explained?.
l. There is a hypothesis for explaining the pollution of the city.= There are hypotheses for explaining the
pollution of the cities.
m. When will he go to the beach? =When will they go to the beaches?.