Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Three, Lesson Three: More Plural Nouns

  1. thick
  2. quick
  3. click
  4. chicken
  5. lack
  6. smack
  7. attack
  8. spring
  9. jumping
  10. yucca
  1. cactus
  2. prickly
  3. pear
  4. barrel
  5. soil
  6. roots
  7. plants
  8. rainfall
  9. evaporate
  10. thorn
Plural Nouns

In the last unit we dealt with simply adding "s" and dropping the y and adding -ies as in these examples: 


	Singular		Pluarl	

	boy			boys
	bunny			bunnies
	fly			flies
	tree			trees
	city			cities
	jelly			jellies
	key			keys
	tent			tents
There are other ways to pluralize certain nouns. Take these for example: 

	Singular		Plural

	peach			peaches
	fox			foxes
	speech			speeches
	ditch			ditches
	leash			leashes
As you may have figured out from these examples we have a special pluralization rule for words that end in ch, x, or sh: ADD -ES. 

    To pluralize words that end in x, ch, or sh, add -es.

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