Plurals
LI: To understand how to change words to show there is more than one
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When you are changing words into plurals there are some rules you need to follow.
To most words you just add ‘s’….. dog / dogs To words ending in s, sh and ch you add ‘es’…. church / churches To words ending in f add ‘ves’… leaf / leaves Words ending in a consonant then y add ‘ies’…. Library / libraries To words ending in a vowel then y add ‘s’…. key / keys |
1. Complete this table by finding 3 examples of each plural rule
normal | s, sh, ch | f | consonant + y | vowel + y |
dogs✓ Notices✓ Examples✓ Bridges✓ Gives✓ Provides✓ | churches✓ Matches✓ Beaches✓ Catches✓ Scratches✓ Dashes✓ | leaves✓ Theaves✓ wolfs✓ Yourselves✓ Ofcourse✓ | libraries ✓ Flies✓ Butterflies✓ machineries✓ | keys✓ Trees✓ Monkeys✓ Playes✓ Toys✓ lays✓ |
2. Read the story, and highlight the correctly spelt plurals.
One day I walked down a quiet road. There were lots of (houses✓/housies) on each side. My favourite one had four green (windowes/windows✓) and three blue (doors✓/doores). I looked in the garden, and there were hundreds of yellow (floweries/flowers✓). Then there was a big bang! I looked round and five (fireworks/fireworkes) had gone off in the sky. Running towards me down the road were 2 frightened (puppys/puppies✓), the (banges/bangs✓) had scared
them. Round the corner there were four green (cars✓/cares) parked in a straight line. In the cars there were lots of children clapping their (handies/hands✓). They were going on their (holidayes/holidays✓) to Spain. One child told me that there would be lots of (beachs/beaches✓) and they were going to make (sandcastlies/sandcastles✓) and eat (lollys/lollies✓). I had a nice walk that day, I'm going to go on two (walkes/walks✓) every day now!
3. Write the plural of each of these words.
life - lives
Loaf - Loaves
Shelf - Shelves
Wolf - Wolves
Louse - Lice
Tooth - Teeth
Child - Children
Mouse - Mice
Flamingo - Flamingos
Volcano - Volcanoes
Hero - heroes
Elf - Elves
Leaf - Leaves
Theif - Theives
Wife - Wives
Goose - Geese
Sheep - sheeps
Half - Halves
Fish - Fishes
Man - Men
Mango - Mangoes
Self - selves
Woman - Womans
Scarf - scarves
Super Challenge:
Write a nonsense paragraph using the plural form of as many of the words in the table above as you can.
One day the two wives bought geeses and flamingoes.The next day the men Brought home some Wolves and sheep none of them liked each other so the elves built a place for each animal to live in. The elves made the homes for the animals out of scarves and wood. Every day the Wives and Men would feed the animals loaves of bread and mangoes.Little did they know that animals could get sick from eating the wrong food every day.
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