Posted by Unknown on Sunday, January 19, 2014 in grammar

A noun is a name of anything

A school, garden, kites or king.
Adjectives tell the kind of noun,
As great, small, pretty, white or brown
Instead of a noun the pronoun stands,
As his head, her face, your arm, my hand.

Verbs tell of something being done,
To read, count, carry, laugh or run.
How things are done the adverbs tell,
As slowly, quickly, ill or well.
Conjunctions join the words together
As men and women, wind and weather.

The preposition stands before the noun
As in or through a door.
The interjection shows surprise as
Oh! How pretty
Three little words you often see
Are articles a, an and the
The whole are nine parts of speech.
Which reading, writing and speaking teach.^^

Singular or Plural in Nouns

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday, December 17, 2013 in grammar

hello every body ^^ today we have a lesson of singular & plural nouns ...

I)- what is nouns ? :

noun can be a name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
Commonly, the first page of a grammar book tells you about nouns. Nouns give names Nouns are usually the first words which small children & bébes learn. like : mom and dad or milk as their first word. nouns should be the first lesson when you study a foreign language.

II)- singular & plural :

1/ For the plural form of most nouns, add s.0

      1. echo– echoes
      2. cup – cups
      3. pencil – pencils
      4. sticker – stickers
      5. window – windows

2/ For nouns that end in CH, X, S, or s sounds, add es.

       1. box – boxes
       2. watch – watches
       3. moss – mosses
       4. bus – buses

3/ For nouns ending in For FE : change the letter F to V and add es.

1. wolf - wolves
2. wharf - wharves
3. leaf - leaves
4. life - lives

4/ Some nouns have different plural forms.

      1. child – children
      2. woman – women
      3. man – men
      4. mouse – mice
      5. goose – geese

5/ Nouns ending in vowels like y or o do not have definite rules.

      1. baby – babies
2. toy – toys
3. kidney – kidneys
      4. potato – potatoes
      5. memo – memos
6. stereo – stereos

6/ few nouns didn't change.
1. sheep – sheep
2. deer – deer
3. series – series
4. species – species

III)- (test) :

Pick up the correct form .

1) I have one (child, children).
2) In this room three (man, men) and one (woman, women).
3) I hit a (mouse, mice) by my foot.
4) I buy three big (toy, toys).
5) A few men wear (watch, watches).
6) I put a (rabbit, rabbits) on the cage.
7) (Baby, Babies) play with bottles as toys.

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