Имя

существительное
Род, число, падеж
 GENDER

cousin, assistant, child

Car, ship, boat

 NUMBER
SINGULAR PLURAL
8 способов образования
множественного числа
 Mary-Marys

Swine-swine
solo Fruit-fruit
Trout-trout
Safe,belief,giraffe, chief,handkerchief Salmon-salmon
Spacecraft-spacecraft

Louse-lice
7. Greek / Latin words
Phenomenon-phenomena
Datum-data
Crisis-crises
Stimulis-stimuli
Formula-formulae
Cactus-cacti
Medium-media
Criterion-criteria
Terminus-termini
 8.Compound nouns
составные, сложные существительные

1. NOUN+NOUN 2. NOUN+ADJECTIVE

lady-bird – lady birds frying pan – frying pans

ball game – ball games

3. NOUN+PREPOSITION 4. OTHER PARTS (without NOUN)

Mother-in-law – mothers-in-law Forget-me-not – forget-me-nots
Passer-by – passers-by Letdown – letdowns
Editor-in-chief – editors-in-chief Merry-go-round – merry-go-rounds
Exercise 1. Write the nouns in plural in the correct column.
A flower, a  fox,  a  potato,  an  orange,  a  class,  a  pen,  a  kitten, a piano, a witch, a house, a chair, a hero, an address, a
plate, a picture, a brush, a ship, a tree, a bench, a film, a glass, a peach, a video, a window.
Exercise 2. Write the plural of the nouns.
A room, a glass, a photo, a test, a dish, a tomato, a girl, a desk, a match, a bus, a vase, a hand, a school, an ostrich, a zoo,
a boss, a  cup,  a  beach,  a  nose,  a  page,  a  bag,  a  torch,  a  case,  a  wish, a spider, a hippo.
Exercise 3. Write the plural of the nouns.
A  holiday,  a  raspberry,  a  monkey,  a  cowboy,  a  fairy,  a  party, a key,  a  cherry,  a  country,  Monday,  a  lady,  a
 puppy,  a  day, a spy, a boy, a story.
Exercise 4. Write the plural of the nouns.
A shelf, a proof, a leaf, a half, a chief, a loaf, a knife, a thief, a safe, a housewife, the life, a handkerchief.
Exercise 5. Write the singular of the nouns.
Bodies,  loaves,  bushes,  friends,  birthdays,  radios,  knives, dictionaries,  forks,  chiefs,  glasses,  churches,  roses,
 roofs, ways, lives, butterflies, boxes, lorries.
Exercise 6. Complete the sentences with the words in plural.
Loaf​ berry​ glass. ​puppy​​ shelf​ bus​ sandwich​ country​ photo​ rose
 
1) The  girls  gathered  a  lot  of  mushrooms  and  ... in  the  wood. 2) The ... smell so sweetly in the garden. 3) A man
has bought two ... of bread at the baker’s. 4) There are two ... at the stop. Which one is ours? 5) She saw three ... with the
books above the table. 6) I’m so hungry! I’ll make some ... . 7) While travelling around the country we took a lot
of nice ... . 8) Black and white ... were sleeping in the basket. 9) He has travelled to many ... . 10) There were two ... of
lemonade on the table.
 
Exercise 7. Write the plural of the nouns.
1) A watch, a dish, a lamp, a fish, merry-go-round, a radio, a knife, a bird, a deer, a day, cactus, a woman, a play, datum,
a pocket, a horse, an activity, a foot, a wolf, a bus, a key, sister-in-law, a mouse.
2) A hen, a fruit, lady-bird, a strawberry, a cup, a test, a bell, a dictionary, a man, a city, a fox, a child, a song, a leaf, a
sheep, an orange, a goose, a game, frying pan, an ox, a potato.
SINGULARIA TANTUM
1. MATERIALS AND SUBSTANCES: iron, oil;
2. ABSTRACT NOUNS: love; happiness
BUT: ideas, suggestions
3. GAMES AND ILNESSES: football, flu;
4. information; money; hair; news; knowledge; advice;
progress; success; summons (вызов в суд); work; weather; luggage;
furniture;
5. NOUNS, WHICH ARE ENDED IN –ics: Physics, Mathematics,
Linguistics, politics, ethics.

ВСЕ ЭТИ СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ТРЕБУЮТ ПОСЛЕ СЕБЯ ГЛАГОЛ В

ЕДИНСТВЕННОМ ЧИСЛЕ! (My hair is clean)
PLURALIA TANTUM
1. CLOTHES WHICH ARE CONSIST OF TWO PARTS: trousers, pants,
shorts, pyjamas, clothes, tights, jeans, shoes, socks, gloves (a pair
of jeans) –not A jeans-
2. THINGS WHICH ARE CONSIST OF TWO PARTS: scales, scissors,
glasses, spectacles
3. goods, contents(содержимое), whereabouts (местонахождение)

ВСЕ ЭТИ СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫЕ ТРЕБУЮТ ПОСЛЕ СЕБЯ ГЛАГОЛ ВО

МНОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ЧИСЛЕ!
(Where are my socks, mum?)
 GROUP NOUNS
собирательные существительные
-audience; -class; -club; -committee; - company; -council; -crew;
- family; -government; - press; -public; -staff; -team; -crowd;
-majority; -minority.

The family lives in this house (singular)

The family help me a lot! (plural)

The team was the best in a city (singular)

The team were given medals (plural)

БЕРУТ ГЛАГОЛ КАК В ЕДИНСТВЕННОМ, ТАК И ВО МНОЖЕСТВЕННОМ

ЧИСЛЕ В ЗАВИСИМОСТИ ОТ ТОГО, ВИДИМ МЫ ГРУППУ КАК ЦЕЛОЕ
ИЛИ КАЖДОГО ПО ОТДЕЛЬНОСТИ!
РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ ЗНАЧЕНИЯ СУЩЕСТВИТЕЛЬНЫХ
ВО МНОЖЕСТВЕННОМ ЧИСЛЕ