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videos
radios
patios
portfolios
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potatoes
tornadoes
tomatoes
embargoes
lassoes
Exception to the pattern:
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banjos
Ending in two vowels
Ends with consonant &
vowel
a recording of moving visual images made digitally or on videotape
a starchy plant tuber that is one of the most important food crops, cooked
and eaten as a vegetable
a mobile, destructive vortex
of violently rotating winds
having the appearance of a
funnel-shaped cloud and
advancing beneath a large
storm system
a rope with a noose at one end, used especially in North America for
catching cattle or horses.
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cliffs
roofs
cuffs
beliefs
hoofs
handkerchiefs
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life - lives
leaf - leaves
half - halves
loaf - loaves
calf - calves
Exception:
 themselves
(is never singular)
Some words change from their
singular form when adding the
–s to make them plural.
Notice the f has been changed
to a v. Now we add –es.
the horny part of the foot of an ungulate animal, especially a horse
an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
a flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that
is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of
photosynthesis and transpiration.
1. a young bovine animal, especially a domestic cow or bull in its first
year.
2. the fleshy back part of the leg below the knee.
a particular group of people or things mentioned
Singular Form
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tooth
foot
goose
mouse
ox
child
Plural Form
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teeth
feet
geese
mice
oxen
children
a set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most
vertebrates, used for biting and chewing
Singular & Plural Form
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sheep
moose
fish
deer
a flattened structure of a higher plant, typically green and bladelike, that
is attached to a stem directly or via a stalk. Leaves are the main organs of
photosynthesis and transpiration.