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Plural Rules
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1Just add 's'cup = cups
door = doors
phone = phones
book = books - 2words that end in a hissing sound add 'es'church = churches
box = boxes
miss = misses
dish = dishes - 3words that end in 'f' or 'fe' replace the 'f' or 'fe' with 'ves'leaf = leaves
knife = knives
wife = wives
half = halves - 4words ending in 'consonant' + 'y' = change 'y' to 'ies'lady = ladies
family = families
cry = cries
story = stories - 5words ending in 'vowel' + 'y' just add 's'key = keys
trolley = trolleys
boy = boys
day = days - 6the word changes altogetherchild = children
woman = women
man = men
tooth = teeth
mouse = mice - 7the word stays the samefish = fish
sheep = sheep
scissors = scissors
aircraft = aircraft - 8words ending in 'o'potato = potatoes
tomato = tomatoes
zero = zeros
motto = mottos - 9'latin' words ending in 'us' = change to 'i' 'a' = change to 'ae' 'um' = change to 'a' 'is' = change to 'es'terminus = termini
formula = formulae
medium = media
axis = axes - 10exceptions
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- The rules for changing singular words into plural words
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- Elaine Baskerville
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