Ex.9. Make the plural of the following words and write them in three columns according to the pronunciation rules of the ending

1. [s] 2. [z] 3. [iz]

Journey, hero, loss, bath, hearth, toy, city, piano, handkerchief, cheese, berry, mouth, month, belief, Negro, life, shelf, valley, roof, stitch, cliff, mate, cloth, steamer, embryo, dwarf, secretary, servant, dog, text.

 

Ex.10. Write the correct form of the nouns in parenthesis.

1. I mat some interesting __________ (man) at the meeting last night.

2. The farmer loaded his cart with ________ (box) of fresh vegetables to take to market. His cart was pulled by two ______ (ox).

3. The baby got two new _______ (tooth).

4. I need some _________(match) to light the fire.

5. Alex saw some _________ (mouse) running across the floor.

6. We cooked some ________ (potato) for dinner.

7. The north side of the island has no ____________ (bitch). There are only steep __________ (cliff). No one can climb these steep walls of rocks.

8. If a houseplant is given too much water, its lower _________ (leaf) turn yellow.

9. Before Marie signed the contract, she talked to two _______ (attorney).

10. New scientific _______ (discovery) are made every day in ________ (laboratory) throughout the world.

11. On our trip in the mountains, we saw some _______ (wolf), __________ (fox), ____________ (deer) and wild ________ (sheep).

12. When the ___________ (child) were playing a game, they hid behind some __________ (bush).

13. When I was at the park, I saw some ___________ (duck) and _________ (goose) swimming in a pond.

14. When we spoke in the cave, we could hear ________ (echo) of our voices.

15. I caught several ___________ (fish) in the lake.

16. The music building at the university has 27 ___________ (piano). Students need to sing up for practice times.

 

Ex.11. Consult the table and give the plural of the following foreign nouns.

 

	Ending	Regular plural	Latin/Greek plural
a	- us	-uses	-i
b	-a	-as	-ae
c	-um	-ums	-a
d	-ex	-exes	-ices
e	-ix	-ixes	-ices
f	-is	-ises	-es
g	-on	-ons	-a

1. cactus, fungus, radius, stimulus, genius
2. alga, formula, vertebra, antenna
3. bacterium, curriculum, datum, medium, memorandum, stratum, millennium
4. index
5. appendix
6. analysis, axis, basis, crisis, diagnosis, hypothesis, oasis, parenthesis, thesis
7. criterion, phenomenon

 

Ex.12. Form interrogative sentences with the following nouns. Where possible use the plural forms of the nouns:

parenthesis genus aquarium

syllabus curriculum diploma

campus miasma nucleus

analysis thesis oasis

crisis symposium ellipsis

dilemma erratum basis

criterion opus chorus

cherub antenna ultimatum

matrix plateau hypothesis