Nouns
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  Singular and Plural nouns

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bulletWe form plural nouns by adding - s

          

Singular

Plural

a book

two cups

    one dog

three dogs

the window

the windows

a pen

some pens

 

bulletWe form some plural nouns differently:

              Singular

Plural

man

men

child

children

foot

feet

tooth

teeth

mouse

mice

woman

             women

 

bulletWe form some plural nouns by adding -es.
 Singular  Plural
 bus  buses
 watch watches
 box boxes
 potato potatoes
 wish wishes

 

bulletWe form some plural nouns by adding - ies

 

 Singular  Plural
lorry lorries
city cities
family families
country countries

 

bulletWe form some plural nouns by adding - ves

 

 Singular  Plural
 wife wives
 knife knives
 wolf wolves

         

Practice                             

 Level 1

Exercise  1 Exercise  2

 Level 2

Exercise  1 Exercise  2

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

  Countable and Uncountable Nouns  

Grammar notes

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bullet  Most nouns have singular and plural forms :

         bus/ buses;    dog/ dogs;       man/ men

bullet  We call these countable nouns because we can count them

          e.g. one pen;  two pencils;    three men

bullet  Some nouns have one form and cannot be counted. We call them uncountable nouns.

         e.g. water,  bread,  money,   rain,   milk

bullet  We cannot use a, an or numbers before uncountable nouns.

 

Practice                             

 Level 5

Exercise  1

Exercise 2

Exercise  3