Слайд 2There are countable and uncountable nouns.
Countable
a chair
a question
an engineer
a bus
Uncountable
mater
milk
freedom
friendship
Слайд 3The countable noun is used in the form of the
singular and the plural.
The uncountable nouns is used only in
the form of singular.
Слайд 5Some nouns form the plural by changing the root vowel.
Слайд 7The plural of the nouns sheep, deer, swine and fish
is identical with the singular.
Слайд 8 Some nouns borrowed from Latin and Greek keep the plural
form of the language from which they have been borrowed.
A
phenomenon [finominen]-phenomena [finimine]явище
a crisis [ kraisis ]-crises[kraisiz]
a radius [reidjes]-radii [reidiai]
Слайд 9If the singular ends in – th [θ] preceded by
a long vowel or a diphthong, in the plural the
final [θ] is changed into [ ʆ] after which the ending –s is pronounced [z].
A path [pa:θ]- paths [pa:ʆz]
Слайд 12Some nouns ending in – o
take –es.
f.e Tomato- tomatoes
But:
radio-radios, piano-
pianos,
photo- photos, video- videos.
Слайд 17Plurals
Spelling Rules
To form plural nouns we usually add -s
to the noun.
one pen - two pens
Nouns ending in -s, -ss, -ch, -x or -o take -es in the plural.
bus - buses, glass - glasses, brush - brushes, watch - watches, fox - foxes, tomato - tomatoes
However, some nouns ending in - o take only –s .
radio - radios, piano - pianos, studio - studios , video - videos kilo - kilos
Nouns ending in a vowel + y take -s in the plural.
boy - boys
Nouns ending in a consonant + y drop the -y and take -ies in the plural.
party - parties , baby - babies
Most nouns ending in -f or -fe, drop the -f or -fe and take -ves in the plural.
knife - knives , wolf - wolves
However, some nouns ending in -f or -fe take only -s.
roof - roofs, cliff - cliffs, giraffe - giraffes
Слайд 18Irregular Plurals
Some nouns do not form their plural according to
the about rules.
They either have a different form or the
same form as in the
singular.
These are:
Слайд 20Countable / Uncountable Nouns
Countable nouns are nouns which we can
count. They have singular and plural forms.
One egg, two eggs, three eggs
Слайд 21Uncountable nouns are nouns which we cannot count. Uncountable nouns
have only
singular forms. These nouns include:
Food: cheese, butter, salt, pepper,
bread, spaghetti, etc
Liquid: coffee, milk, water, tea, lemonade, etc
Слайд 22We can use the following nouns before uncountable nouns to
show quantity: