Exercise 14. Here are seven groups of nouns. Look in the box and find two more nouns to add to each group

Exercise 13. Write the plurals of these nouns.

Address science drug computer medication pharmacist patient drugstore boundary case plant peach play poppy reply toy tree video witch worry

Aircraft crisis dozen mathematics means mouse news police scissors sheep shelf thousand tooth wolf

1. COUNTABLE NOUNS WITH SINGULAR (AND PLURAL) IN s

Series crossroads analysis – analyses

2. OTHER NOUNS WITH SINGULAR AND PLURAL THE SAME

Trout deer fish salmon

3. NOUNS THAT HAVE A PLURAL WITHOUT S AFTER A NUMBER

Hundred (e.g. two hundred) million

4. NOUNS WITH SINGULAR IN f(e), PLURAL IN ves.

Calf – calves half knife leaf life loaf self thief wife

5. OTHER NOUNS WITH IRREGULAR PLURALS

Child – children foot – feet fungus – fungi goose – geese man – men medium – media ox – oxen penny – pence phenomenon – phenomena woman – women

6. UNCOUNTABLE SINGULAR NOUNS ENDING IN s (NORMALLY NO PLURAL)

Athletics billiards economics gymnastics measles physics politics

7. PLURAL NOUNS WITH NO SINGULAR

Arms belongings cattle clothes congratulations contents earnings goods outskirts people remains surroundings thanks troops trousers

Remember:

Существительные греческого и латинского происхождения сохранили первоначальную форму множественного числа, а некоторые имеют две формы – прежнюю и современную:

dat um – dat a

bas is – bases

formal a – formul ae, formul as

Некоторые существительные, оканчивающиеся на о, могут образовывать множественное число двумя способами:

Buffalo s / buffalo es mosquito s / mosquito es volcano s / volcano es zero s / zero es tornado s / tornado es

Remember:

B eдинственном числе употребляются:
Предметы изучения и названия наук	Maths, physics, chemistry, history, literature
Языки	English, Chinese, Russian, Belarusian
Игры	Billiards, tennis, baseball, chess, soccer
Названия болезней	Cancer, measles, mumps, flu
Природные явления	Darkness, fog, gravity, heat, humidity
Собирательные существительные	Baggage, luggage, furniture, jewellery, rubbish

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