{"id":73978,"date":"2020-04-14T05:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73978"},"modified":"2024-07-25T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:41:05","slug":"irregular-plurals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/irregular-plurals\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular Plurals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some nouns<\/a> change their spelling when they become plural<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child: children
Foot: feet
Goose: geese
Louse: lice
Man: men
Mouse: mice
Ox: oxen
Tooth: teeth
Woman: women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some nouns have the same form whether they are singular or plural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deer: deer
Moose: moose
Portuguese: Portuguese
Series: series
Sheep: sheep
Species: species
Swine: swine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only plurals formed with apostrophes<\/a> are the plurals of numbers, letters, and words highlighted as words. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many 3’s make 9?
Be sure to mind your p’s and q’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some words from other languages form plurals in other ways, often determined by the laws of the language of their origin. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

analysis: analyses
axis: axes
bacterium: bacteria
index: indices
parenthesis: parentheses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worksheet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Some nouns form their plurals by changing their spelling. Fill in the blanks with the plural form of the word given in the brackets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Do you have any ……………………? (child)<\/li>
  2. Humans walk on their two …………………… (foot)<\/li>
  3. My head is infested with …………………….. (louse)<\/li>
  4. Cats love chasing ………………….. (mouse)<\/li>
  5. I want to get some …………………… (tooth) extracted. <\/li>
  6. There are many different ……………………… of plants and animals. (species)<\/li>
  7. …………………. are castrated bulls. (Ox)<\/li>
  8. ………………. are considered the fairer sex. (Woman)<\/li>
  9. I watch a lot of Korean TV ……………………. (series)<\/li>
  10. The bicycle and the car are different ……………………. of transport. (means)<\/li>
  11. ………………….. are animals raised for fleeces and meat. (Sheep)<\/li>
  12. The park has a huge population of …………………….. (deer)<\/li>
  13. Pigs are also called …………………… (swine)<\/li>
  14. Antibiotics kill ……………………. (bacterium)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    children, 2. feet, 3. lice, 4. mice, 5. teeth, 6. species, 7. oxen, 8. women, 9. series, 10. means, 11. sheep, 12. deer, 13. swine, 14. bacteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some nouns change their spelling when they become plural. Child: childrenFoot: feetGoose: geeseLouse: liceMan: menMouse: miceOx: oxenTooth: teethWoman: women Some nouns have the same form whether they are singular or plural. Deer: deerMoose: moosePortuguese:...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2640,2639],"class_list":["post-73978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-irregular-plurals","tag-plurals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77901,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73978\/revisions\/77901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}