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    This document discusses plural nouns in English, including rules for spelling and pronunciation. It provides four rules for changing singular nouns to plural: adding -s, -es, -ies, or -ves depending on the final letter or letters. Examples are given for applying each rule. The document then provides a table to practice writing plural forms and discusses pronunciation of regular plural nouns as ending in /s/, /z/, or /iz/ sounds depending on whether the noun ends in a voiced or unvoiced sound.

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    This document discusses plural nouns in English, including rules for spelling and pronunciation. It provides four rules for changing singular nouns to plural: adding -s, -es, -ies, or -ves depending on the final letter or letters. Examples are given for applying each rule. The document then provides a table to practice writing plural forms and discusses pronunciation of regular plural nouns as ending in /s/, /z/, or /iz/ sounds depending on whether the noun ends in a voiced or unvoiced sound.

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    This document discusses plural nouns in English, including rules for spelling and pronunciation. It provides four rules for changing singular nouns to plural: adding -s, -es, -ies, or -ves depending on the final letter or letters. Examples are given for applying each rule. The document then provides a table to practice writing plural forms and discusses pronunciation of regular plural nouns as ending in /s/, /z/, or /iz/ sounds depending on whether the noun ends in a voiced or unvoiced sound.

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    This document discusses plural nouns in English, including rules for spelling and pronunciation. It provides four rules for changing singular nouns to plural: adding -s, -es, -ies, or -ves depending on the final letter or letters. Examples are given for applying each rule. The document then provides a table to practice writing plural forms and discusses pronunciation of regular plural nouns as ending in /s/, /z/, or /iz/ sounds depending on whether the noun ends in a voiced or unvoiced sound.

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    “That's why I waited with my tear-soaked

    face. For you to come with roses, with a


    thousand roses for me”
    Is it better to have…
    • 1 rose or one thousand roses ?
    • 1 dollar or one thousand dollars?
    • 1 dish or one thousand dishes?
    • 1 debt or one thousand debts?
    • 1 wife or one thousand wives?
    • 1 party a life or one thousand parties a life?

    I’d better have ….


    I’d rather not have…
    I’d better have …. one thousand dollars
    I’d rather not have…
    Plural nouns are not
    enchiladas
    • We have rules to pronounce and write them well.

    • First, we’ll learn how to write them properly and


    then, we’ll make funny sounds to pronounce
    them correctly.

    • Spelling -> bien escrito


    • Pronunciation -> bien pronunciado
    Spelling rules
    1. Huevona Rule
    • We add –S to most of the nouns
    • Cat – Cats Washbasin-Washbasinsbook-booksrose-roses

    2. Beat-box rule
    • We add –ES to nouns ending in o, x, s, ss, sh, ch, dg, z
    • Tomato-Tomatoes box-boxes bus-buses dish-dishes but radio-radios

    y
    3. Consonant + Y rule
    • We kill the “Y” and ad –IES instead.
    • Party-parties city-cities country-countries but boy-boys

    f/fe
    f/fe Rule
    • We remove the f or fe and add –VES instead
    • Wife-wives Wolf-wolves knife-knives
    Write the words in the correct form
    • bicycle, bus, cherry, knife, glass, house, apple, box, baby, ball, tomato,
    leaf, radio, dress, city, wife, fox, watch, parrot, lady, wolf, dish, boy,
    melon, armchair, toilet, sink
    Singular noun Plural Noun
    1st rule – S Bicycles, houses, apples, balls, radios, parrots, boys,
    melons, armchairs, toilets, sinks
    2nd rule- ES Buses, glasses, boxes, tomatoes, dresses, watches,
    dishes
    3rd rule –IES Cherries, babies, cherries, cities, foxes, ladies,
    4th rule –VES Knives, leaves, wives, wolves,
    Pronunciation for the regular plural nouns

    /s/ /iz/ /z/

    Unvoiced Voiced
    Tip sounds
    sounds sounds
    Pronunciation

    • :/b/, /d/, /g/, /v/, /ð/, /l/,

    /Z/ /m/, /n/ , /ŋ/,/eɪ/ and /aɪ/

    • /p/ , /t/ ,/k/ ,/f/ and /θ/

    /S/
    • /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /tʃ/ and /dʒ/

    /IZ/

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