They have their special plural form.
The Noun
The Noun is the name for anything, i.e. people, animals, things.
Ex.1 Write down:
a) ten names of the things in the classroom;
b) ten things you can see in the town;
c) ten things you can see in the town;
d) ten things you can find in your house;
e) ten names of the people;
f) ten that are names of places.
Ex.2 Read the story and underline all the nouns in it.
One day a man came to a chemist’s shop and said, ‘Have you anything to cure a headache?’
The chemist took a bottle from the shelf, held it under the gentleman’s nose and took out the cork. The smell was so strong that tears came into the man’s eyes and ran down his cheeks.
‘What did you do that for?’ he said angrily, as soon as he could get back his breath.
‘But that medicine has cured your headache, hasn’t it?’ said the chemist.
‘You fool,’ said the man, ‘It’s my wife who has headache, not me!’
Ex.3 In the text above find the nouns …
In singular? ___________________ In plural? _________________________
Countable? ____________________ Uncountable? ______________________
The nouns in the Possessive Case? ______________________________________
In English grammar there are two numbers, SINGULAR and PLURAL.
With most of the nouns in English we make the plural number by adding ‘s’ to the singular.
| Noun + s | -s,-ss,-sh,-ch,-x,-z +es | -o + es | A consonant + -y -> -ies | A vowel + -y | -f,-fe -> ves |
| Bags | boxes | tomatoes | Ladies | Boys | Wives |
-s is pronounced:
[z] after voiced consonants and vowels: flowers, beds, boys
[s] after voiceless caps, books, hats
[iz] after sibilants: noses, horses, bridges, houses
Ex. 4 Write the plural form of the following nouns, divide them into columns according to their reading rules
Story, play, glass, flag, photo, name, match, knife, bush, chief, page, radio, roof, prize, set, key, factory, wolf, piano, class, cup, city
There are some irregular nouns that are rendered as exceptions.
Man – men, goose – geese, mouse – mice, sheep - sheep
Ex. 5 Write the plural form of the following irregular nouns
Child, goose, man, foot, mouse, woman, sheep, person, deer, tooth, ox
Ex. 6 Give the plural form of the nouns and learn the rhyme
· a cat – cats a hat - … a sock - … a clock - …
· a dog - … a frog - … a bee - … a tree - …
· a box - … a bus - … a match - … a glass - …
· a lady - … a baby - … a city - … a country - …
· a shelf - … a knife - … a wife - … a life - …
· a child - … a woman - … a man - … a mouse - …
· Study hard and you’ll be wise!
Ex.7 Put the nouns into an appropriate column
Some of the English nouns are of Greek and Latin origin,
they have their special plural form.
Ex. 7 Match the nouns in singular and plural
| criterion | nuclei |
| datum, | stimuli |
| formula | indices |
| crisis | oases |
| stimulus | data |
| index | media |
| phenomenon | criteria |
| medium | formulae |
| oasis | phenomena |
| nucleus, | crises |
