forming of plural nouns
Rules for forming plural nouns
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Rules for Forming Plural Nouns
To form the plural of nouns, follow the rules below.
1. Add s to most nouns.
girl/girls bicycle/bicycles printer/printers
2. Add es to nouns ending is ...
8. For nouns ending in f or fe, usually change the f or fe to ves.
leaf/leaves shelf/shelves wolf/wolves
Exceptions: chief/chiefs chef/chefs safe/safes
9. Add s to the end of singular nouns ... vowel, add s.
monkey/monkeys valley/valleys
5. For nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant, add es.
hero/heroes potato/potatoes
6. For nouns ending in o preceded by a vowel, add s.
Oreo/Oreos...
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Grammar And Usage For Better Writing - Review of Verbs, Nouns, and Pronouns
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... it alone.
continued
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 65
Lesson
10
Review of
Verbs, Nouns,
and Pronouns
REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 61
To learn what part of speech a word is, ask ... physics.
Nouns can be tricky, too. They change form depending on how they are used—as sin-
gular, plural, or possessive nouns. On the next page is a summary of the rules for forming
plurals of nouns.
must ... ADJ.
MODIFIES
She
helpful
has been
children
restless
grew
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REVIEW OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND PRONOUNS 63
When to add
S
:
A. To most nouns: book—books. (See Rule 1, page 28.)
A–X. Exceptions...
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... vs. the number of the head
nouns of conjuncts (e.g. dogs and mud =
PLURAL, SINGULAR)
N of N constructions:
2D
the number of the target
noun (N
) vs. the type of the N
in an N
of N
construction ... source of plural only and bi-
partite nouns, using all the instances listed as our
positive exemplars. The set of negative exemplars
was constructed in each case by taking the intersec-
tion of nouns ... last class is plural only nouns: those that only
have a plural form, such as goods. They can nei-
ther be denumerated nor modified by much. Many
of these nouns, such as clothes, use the plural form
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... geological structure of the basin,
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... about twofold (half-life
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A study on formation of adjectives from nouns in English
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... adjectives and root nouns as well as the change of verb form
compared with root nouns.
From the study of adjective formation from nouns in English, we can find
out the implication of the study with ... catch the meaning of adjective
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suffix ... production of a specific type of word.
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