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Nouns You May Find Difficult To Pluralise by Vistakademia(m): 6:43am On Jul 11, 2018 |
Do you know one of the most interesting topics in English we like to take in Primary/Elementary School? It was 'Singular and Plural' because it was just a case of adding any of the following suffixes: ‘s’ as in bucket/buckets, list/lists, book/books, spoon/spoons, etc. ‘es’ as in brush/brushes, church/churches, bush/bushes, fish/fishes (different ones) etc. ‘ies’ as in lorry/lorries, lady/ladies, berry/berries, baby/babies, cherry/cherries, etc. ‘ves’ to nouns ending in ‘f’ – knife/knives, leaf/leaves, shelf/shelves, loaf/loaves, I'm sure you liked the topic too back then. Good! However, the English Language comprises words derived from many other languages of the world such as Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, etc. and most nouns with foreign origins have their plural formed differently from the way other English nouns form their plurals. If I may ask you, what are the plural forms of these 20 nouns? Vortex Syllabus Stadium Alga Alumna Analysis Antenna Bandit Basis Bureau Focus Gateau Radius Vita Furniture Machinery Pajamas Scissors News Music Now, don't you run away because you agreed with me a while ago that you too liked singular and plural. The 20 words above are single words; what about compound words? How do you pluralise the following compound words? Father-in-law Attorney-General Major-General Order-in-council Court-martial Poet laureate Chief of staff Judge advocate Passer-by Go-between Don't you give up now! Don't yelle you can't correctly pluralise these compound words. Anyway, check this out and you will be able to access more information on nouns and their plural forms! You can send me your feedback, thank you. https://akademia.com.ng/nouns-and-their-plural-forms/ |
Re: Nouns You May Find Difficult To Pluralise by kolafolabi(m): 7:19am On Jul 11, 2018 |
Weldone Op.. Nice write up! 2 Likes |
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