1. Study the tables and then complete the rules.

Singular Plural Singular Plural book table cliff chair roof berry books tables cliffs chairs roofs berries match dress journey tomato tax knife matches dresses journeys tomatoes taxes knives Singular Plural knife loaf knives loaves Most nouns and also nouns ending in a vowel + y take ____ in the plural. Nouns ending in a consonant + y, drop the ____ and take ____. Nouns ending in s, ss, sh, ch, x and o take ____ in the plural. Some nouns ending -f or -fe drop the____ or____ and takes ____ to form their plural. But cliff – cliff ____.

2. Write the plural forms of the words below:

E.g.: 1) tomato – tomatoes

1. tomato 2) life 3) cherry 4) leaf 5) boy 6) cliff 7) butterfly 8) roof 9) orange 10) parrot.

3. Say which nouns are countable and which are uncountable, then fill a, an or some.

E.g.: accommodation – uncountable – some accommodation

1. accommodation, 2) advice, 3) carrot, 4) table, 5) baggage, 6) bread, 7) furniture, 8) tooth, 9) luggage, 10) child, 11) money, 12) coin, 13) news, 14) travel, 15) onion, 16) work 17) dress 18) information 19) sugar 20) milk.

Use of English

Irregular nouns

1. Study the table

   sheep – sheep deer – deer fish - fish analysis – analyses crisis – crises thesis- theses man – men foot – feet child - children person – people tooth - teeth mouse - mice castus – casti nucleus – nuclei focus - foci phenomenon – phenomena half – halves wolf – wolves loaf- loaves

2. Fill in the table with the words from the list.

Singular	Plural
______________________________ ox deer fish	geese _________________________________ _________________________________ _________________________________

3. What are the plurals of these words?

E.g.: man - men

1) man, 2) child, 3) woman, 4) person, 5) mouse.

4. Fill in the correct word(s) from the list below.

E.g.: 1) three bottles of wine

slice, bottle, glass, packet, bowl, loaf, cup, carton, piece

1. three ____ of wine, 2) four ____ of sugar, 3) eight ____ of milk, 4) nine ____ of coffee, 5) a dozen ____ of butter, 6) five ____ of cake, 7) ten ____ of water, 8) it is a ____ of bread, 9) cutting from a ____ of bread