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Supply the plural form for the singular nouns listed below.





A book, a lecture, a computer, gas, dish, tax, country, army, key, day, hero, piano, cargo, leftover, notary public, a brother-in-law, editor-in-chief, watch-maker, drive-in, in 1960.

Irregular plurals

1. Nouns ending in - f or - fe change the - f to - v and add - es: shel f – shel ves; wi f e – wi ves but some nouns keep the f and add - s as in roo f – roo fs, belie f – belie fs, chie f – chie fs.

2. There are a few irregular plurals that involve a change of vowel. They reflect older English forms as in: man – men, mouse – mice, woman – women, louse – lice, foot – feet, goose – geese.

Some native English words have the en plural: child – childr en, ox – ox en ( also ox es), brother – brethr en (in special senses).

Some nouns (mainly names of animals) have the same spoken and written form in both singular and plural: deer – deer, swine – swine, sheep – sheep, fish – fish (or fishes in special senses).

3. There are many nouns borrowed into English from Latin and Greek that retain foreign plurals as: stimulus – stimuli, curriculum – curricula, crisis – crises.

 

 

3.3. Put the nouns into plural and explain the use of the form:

a) Elf, half, wife, shelf, scarf, leaf, knife, loaf, wolf, thief;

B) Roof, chief, cliff, proof

 

3.4. Read the following humorous poem and pay special attention to the correct form of plural nouns:

THE CRAZIEST LANGUAGE

We’ll begin with a box and the plural is boxes;

But the plural of ox should oxen not oxes.

Then the fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse in a nest full of mice;

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

As the plural of man is always called men,

Why shouldn’t the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,

And if I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn’t the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,

Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,

And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also a brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say mothren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,

But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

So English (I fancy you will agree),

Is the craziest language you ever did see.

 

3.5. Learn the irregular plurals of the following nouns:

SingularPlural SingularPlural
alumna –alumnae alumnus – alumni analysis – analyses antithesis – antitheses appendix – appendices axis – axes bacterium – bacteria basis – bases cannon – cannon child – children curriculum – curricula datum – data deer – deer die – dice dynamo – dynamos ellipsis – ellipses emphasis – emphases fish – fish (fishes – different kind of fish) focus – foci foot – feet fungus – fungi goose – geese hypothesis – hypotheses louse – lice man – men maximum – maxima (maxims) minimum – minima mouse – mice oasis – oases ox – oxen parenthesis – parentheses phenomenon – phenomena piano – pianos radio – radios sheep – sheep swine – swine thesis – theses tooth – teeth vertebra – vertebrae virtuoso – virtuosi woman – women

3.6. Supply the plural form for the singular nouns listed below and explain the use of the form:

Criterion, deer, datum, analysis, foot, child, loaf, phenomenon, life, basis, woman, alumnus, thief, focus, tooth, sheep, louse, goose, hoof, mouse, fish, swine, elf, ox, curriculum, basis, datum, thesis fisherman, statesman, a woman-doctor, a house-wife, a pocket-knife.

Invariable nouns

Always singular (singularia tantum) are:

1) uncountable nouns that may belong to different grammatical groups: proper nouns (Minsk), mass nouns (butter), most abstract nouns (music) and some collective nouns (furniture).

2) some nouns ending in -s, naming:

a) some diseases: shingles, measles;

b) subject names in -ics: mathematics, economics;

c) some games: billiards, darts, draughts;

d) some proper nouns: Athens, Brussels, Naples, the Thames, Wales.

e) miscellaneous nouns like a chemical works (‘a place of work’), a barracks (‘a building that soldiers live in; a big plain and usually ugly building’), headquarters as in The headquartes consist s of the commander and five members of his staff; customs (in the meaning of ‘the agency for collecting duties on import and export’).

 

Always plural (pluralia tantum)are nouns denoting:

1) things consisting of two or more parts: glasses; trousers, pyjamas, shorts, scissors;

2) other pluralia tantum in - s: thanks, customs (in the meaningof ‘duties, tolls imposed on import and export’), lodgings, auspices, arms (in the meaning of ‘guns’), quarters (in the meaning of ‘assigned position, lodgings, esp. for soldiers’), greens, valuables, goods, riches, wages, stairs, clothes, contents;

3) some proper nouns: the Netherlands;

4) some other collective nouns with no -s at the end: cattle, police, the rich.

NOTE that the category of number may not coincide in English and Russian nouns.

Thus, nouns potato, onion, carrot, oat may be plural in English (potatoes, onions, carrots, oats)while in Russian they are usually singular: Potatoes are cheap in this country – В этой стране картофель дешевый. ‘A potato’ means ‘одна картошка’.

The words wages and contents are plural in English but their correlated words ‘зарплата’, ‘содержание’ are singular in Russian.

The following English words are always singular advice, information, knowledge, money, news, permission and progress,while their Russian equivalents are either plural (деньги) or can be both singular and plural (новость, новости).

The English nouns watch and sledge are regular nouns and can be used both in singular and plural while Russian часы and сани are pluralia tantum.

 

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