Yabancı Dil I Bölüm - 2 Bölüm - 2 Plural Rules Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 1 Most words add ‘s’ to make the plural. one apple desk → two apples desks book → books month → months train → trains pen → pens name → names shop → shops friend → friends chair → chairs teacher →teachers Yabancı Dil - I Try these… pencil → window → door → road → cake → flower → banana → girl → shoe → plant → Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 2 Add ‘es’ to words ending in ‘ch’, ‘sh’, ‘s’, ‘ss’, ‘x’ or ‘z’ to make the plural. one box many boxes wish →wishes beach → beaches cross → crosses brush → brushes bus → buses church → churches dish → dishes glass → box → boxes watch → glasses watches Yabancı Dil - I Try these… watch → glass → pitch → dress → wax → bush → class → hutch → gas → quiz →quizzes Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 3 When the letter before a ‘y’ is a consonant, change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ before adding an ‘es’. one baby two babies city → cities berry → pony → ponies family → families reply → replies lady → berries ladies Yabancı Dil - I Try these… daisy → diary → ferry → cherry → army → belly → party → jelly → fly → filly → Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 4 When words end in ‘ay’, ‘ey’, ‘iy’, ’oy’, and ‘uy’ add an ‘s’ to make the plural one donkey two donkeys day → days boy → key → keys delay → play → plays guy → boys delays guys Yabancı Dil - I Try these quay → monkey → valley → trolley → tray → buoy → pulley → relay → toy → holiday → Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 5 When words end in ‘f’ or ‘fe’ change the ‘f’ or ‘fe’ to a ‘ves’. one knife two knives leaf → leaves life → lives half → halves loaf → loaves wife → wives thief → thieves Yabancı Dil - I Try these wolf → elf → loaf → self → calf → shelf → Exceptions → cliffs, chiefs, roofs, dwarfs and handkerchiefs. Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 6 When a word ends in an ‘o’ and comes after a consonant, add ‘es’ to make the plural. one tomato two tomatoes cargo → cargoes mango → mangoes echo → echoes hero → volcano →volcanoes heroes torpedo→ torpedoes Yabancı Dil - I Try these potato → avocado → mosquito → domino → buffalo → dingo → Exceptions → pianos, banjos, solos, radios and Eskimos. Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rules 7 Irregulars one child two children person →people goose → geese man →men woman → women tooth- teeth foot-feet mouse-mice Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 8 Sometimes a word may stay the same in both its singular and plural form. one fish tuna → deer →deer sheep →sheep series →series many fish tuna Yabancı Dil - I Plural Rule 9 Uncountable Nouns Air Electricity Chocolate Bread Hair water/tea/coffee Cheese Gold Blood Ice Butter Meat Jam Oil salt/sugar oxygen Yabancı Dil - I Exercises Singular tree mouse smile factory half postman toy table boy kiss Plural Yabancı Dil - I This-that-these-those this (bu), that (şu), these (bunlar), those (şunlar) This (singular-tekil) and these (plural-çoğul) nesne veya insanın konuşmacıya yakın olduğunu bildirir. That (singular-tekil) and those (plural-çoğul) nesne veya insanın konuşmacıya uzak olduğunu bildirir. Yabancı Dil - I This-that-these-those Examples This car is very expensive. This is my umbrella. This is my friend, John. What is this? These houses are very old. These are tables. What are these Yabancı Dil - I This-that-these-those Examples That woman is very beautiful. That is my car. What is that? Those students are very hardworking. Those are my books. What are those? Yabancı Dil - I Exercises Yabancı Dil - I Exercises Circle the correct words This/These band is fantastic. That/Those singers are awful. This/These jeans are new. That/Those CD isn’t very expensive. This/These album is my father’s. Don’t open that/those window, please. Listen to this/these song. Yabancı Dil - I Exercises Yabancı Dil - I References Puchta, H . &Stranks, J.(2012). Mind your English. Cambridge University Press. http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/englishA3.htm Yabancı Dil - I