Pluralization
Pluralization
Quarter 1- Week 1
PLURALIZATION OF NOUNS
TAKE NOTE:
Nouns form their plural in different ways.
-A singular noun names one person, place or thing.
-A plural noun names more than one person, place or thing.
Rules:
1.Some nouns form their plural by adding s or es.
Example: Tree-Trees tables-tables car -cars
Do: 1. pencil
2. envelope
3. notebook
4. eraser
5. ballpen
2. Nouns ending in s, sh, ch, x form their plural by adding es.
Examples:
dress -dresses Do: match tax
mass -masses fox wax
bus -buses branch
class -classes brush
3.Nouns ending in y and a consonant before it form their plural by changing y to I and adding –es.
Example:
1. family - families Do:
2. story -stories country-
3. puppy -puppies butterfly-
4. fairy -fairies dictionary-
5. diary -diaries fly-
6. lady -ladies fry-
4.Most nouns ending in y and with a vowel before it form their plural by adding s.
Do:
1. tray 6. library
2. joy 7. cherry
3. day 8. convoy
4. fairy 9. rosary
5. balcony 10 colony
5.Most nouns ending in f or fe form their plural by changing f or fe to v and adding es.
Example: loaf – loaves knife - knives
Do:
1. life 6. thief
2. wife 7. elf
3. wolf 8. leaf
4 shelf 9. self
5. loaf 10. Wharf
6. Some nouns ending in f or fe form their plural by adding s only to their plural form
Example: chief – chiefs brief - briefs
roof – roofs handkerchief - handkerchiefs
ACTIVITY 1
Direction: Change the underlined words in the sentence to its plural form. Write your new sentence in your
paper.
ACTIVITY 2 :Use the plural form of the words in parentheses to complete the sentence.
(church) 1. Father took a picture of the ___________ in the Ilocos Region.
(glass) 2. The windows are made of stained ___________.
(bench) 3. Inside the church are wooden ___________.
(bus) 4. During Sundays there are ____________parked in front of the church.
(crutch) 5. There are people with _____________ selling sampaguita and sweepstake tickets near
the church.
(beach) 6. Some of the churches are located near the__________.
(dish) 7. During fiestas, the church is the center of activity.There are people selling native cakes
and Filipino_____________.
(tax) 8. The people in the community helped in the building of the churches. The church doesn't
pay _________to the government.
(dress) 9. The girls are in their new ____________.
(box) 10. There were candies inside the ____________.
(stair) 11. The boxes were placed near the ___________.
(legend) 12. One of the boxes contains a book on __________.
(ancestor) 13. Our __________know many legend stories.
(book) 14. We have _________in the library about folk tales and legends
(class) 15. Many of the books were donated to the Grade IV _.