Обучающий конспект по теме "Множественное число имен существительных"

Множественное число имен существительных:

1 a flower – flowers,  a week – weeks,  

   A baby – babies

   A nice place – many nice places

2 –es after –s, -sh, -ch, -x:

Bus – buses, dish – dishes, church – churches, box – boxes;

-es after –o:

Potato – potatoes, tomato – tomatoes

     But: piano – pianos, photo – photos, zero – zeros;

-y – ies:

Baby – babies, party – parties, dictionary – dictionaries

      But: -ay – ays; ey – eys; oy – oys; uy – uys:

Day – days, monkey – monkeys, boy – boys, guy – guys;

-f/-fe - -ves:

Shelf – shelves, knife – knives, wife – wives.

3 A man – two men

   A woman – two women

   One foot – two feet

   A tooth – all my teeth

   A goose – geese

   A mouse – some mice

   A louse – lice;

a child – children

-          an ox - oxen

-          a sheep – two sheep

-          a fruit – fruit

-          a deer – deer

-          a fish – two fish

-          a salmon – salmon

-          a swine – swine

-          a trout – trout

-          a bison – bison

-          a reindeer – reindeer

-          a means of transport – many means of transport

-          a television series – two television series

-          a species of bird – 200 species of bird

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4 They:

-scisssors, glasses, trousers, jeans, shorts, pyjamas, tights, sunglasses, underpants

       Or:

A pair of jeans, a pair of scissors, a pair of tights;

-          aristocracy, army, audience, cast, committee, company, council, crew, data, enemy, family, flock, government, group, jury, media, navy, press, public, staff, team, police;

-          clothes, arms, riches, goods, contents, carrots, potatoes, onions.

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5 It:

- “s”:

Aerobics, athletics, linguistics, economics, genetics, physics, politics, statistics, mathematics;

-          a sum of money, a period of time, a distance( pounds, years, miles);

-          advice, baggage, furniture, homework, luggage, machinery, money, news, progress, research, spaghetti, traffic, information, knowledge, fun, duty, education, fire, food, help, ice, joy, love, luck, paper, rain, sand, silence, spite, trade, transport, waste, weather, wind, work, youth.

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6 merry-go-round – merry-go-rounds

   touch-me-not – touch-me-nots

   forget-me-not – forget-me-nots

manservant- menservants

policeman – policemen

brother-in-law – brothers-in-law

guest-of-honour – guests-of-honour

looker-on – lookers-on

passer-by – passers-by

by-stander – by-standers.

7 curriculum – curricular, criterion – criteria, crisis – crises, hippopotamus – hippopotamuses or hippopotami, a basis – bases, an analysis – analyses, a phenomenon – phenomena, a formula – formulae.

8 actor – actress

   Tiger – tigress

   Emperor – empress

   God – goddess

   Host – hostess

   Tailor – seamstress

   Sir – madam

   Sultan – sultana

   Bachelor – spinster

   Gentleman – lady

   King – queen

   Monk – nun

   Nephew – niece

   Priest – priestess

   Duke – duches

   Hunter – huntress

   Master – mistress

   Hero – heroine

   Mr. – Mrs.

   Prince – princess

   Jew – Jewess

   Cock – hen

   Drake – duck

   Bull – cow

   He –goat – she-goat

   Postman – postwoman (“person” : a businessperson, a chairperson, a postperson)

   Stepfather – stepmother

   Wizard – witch

   Gander – goose

   Buck-rabbit – doe-rabbit

   Boy-scout – girl – scout

   Headmaster- headmistress ;