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

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.

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.

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 ;