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The Rules of Regular and Irregular Plurals

For most nouns, just add -sFor nouns ending in s, x, z, ch or sh,

add -es

Singular Plural Singular PluralHand hands box boxes

Rabbit rabbits pitch pitches

Key keys wish wishes

Clock clocks boss bosses

Football footballs buzz buzzes

Door doors glass glasses

For some words ending in o, add -es However, for some words ending ino, just add -s

Singular Plural Singular Plural

Potato potatoes cello cellos

Tomato tomatoes disco discos

Hero heroes hairdo hairdos

Echo echoes logo logos

Banjo banjoes patio patios

The plural of many words ending in o

can be spelt with -s or -es.

photo photos

piano pianos

radio radios

For some words ending in f, change

the f to a v and add -es

However, for some words ending in f,

just add -s

Singular Plural Singular Plural

Half halves chef chefs

Loaf loaves cliff cliffs

Elf elves ref refs

Leaf leaves roof roofs

Self selves

The plural of some nouns ending in f

can be spelt using either variation.

Shelf shelves

Thief thieves

Wolf wolves

For some nouns ending in ife, change For common nouns that end with

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the f to a v and then add -sconsonant + y, change the y to an i

and then add es

Singular Plural Singular Plural

Wife wives poppy poppies

Life lives fly flies

Knife knives penny pennies

spy spies

nappy nappies

sty sties

Some nouns are the same in both

singular and plural from

For some nouns, change other letters

or just change the word completely!

Singular Plural Singular PluralFish fish person people

Sheep sheep child children

Deer deer ox oxen

Tuna tuna foot feet

Salmon salmon tooth teeth

Trout trout goose geese

mouse mice

louse liceman men

GRAMMAR

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REGULAR AND IRREGULAR PLURALS

LECTURER: MAYUZAR RAHMAN, S.Ag, M.Ag

NAME : HUSNUL FATIYAH (TE. 090 345)

: KURNIAWAN PRAMANTO (TE. 090 353)

: NOVITA WULANDARI (TE. 090 379)

:ZULHA (TE. 090 435)

CLASS : BI IV D

STUDENT OF TARBIYAH FACULTY

INSTITUT AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI

SULTAN THAHA SYAIFUDDIN

JAMBI 2011

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QUESTION!!

CHECK THIS WORD, TRUE OR FALSE:

T (True) or F (False)

a. KiloKiloes ( )

b. Ghetto Ghettos ( )

c. Kangaroo Kangarooes ( )

d. Solo Soloes ( )

e. SopranoSoprano ( )

f. Tattoo Tattoes ( )

g. Zoo Zoos ( )

h. Calf Calfs ( )

i. HalfHalves ( )

j. KnifeKnifes ( )

k. LifeLifes ( )

l. LeafLeaves ( )

m. LoafLoaves ( )

n. CriterionCriteria ( )

o. PhenomenonPhenomenos ( )

p. CactusCacti/Cactuses ( )q. FungusFunguses ( )

r. Nucleus Nucleuses ( )

s. StimulusStimuli ( )

t. SyllabusSyllabi ( )

u. FormulaFormulae ( )

v. Offspring Two offspring ( )

w. Series Series ( )

x. Sheep Two sheep ( )

y. Shrimp Shrimps ( )

z. Species Specieses ( )