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Plural Nouns Exercises (A1) — Free

Plural nouns: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and irregular plurals

Most nouns add -s to make the plural: one cat, two cats. Nouns ending in -s, -sh, -ch, -x and many ending in -o add -es: buses, dishes, watches, boxes, tomatoes. A consonant + y changes to -ies (baby → babies), but a vowel + y just adds -s (boy → boys, day → days). Many nouns ending in -f or -fe change to -ves: knife → knives, leaf → leaves. Some plurals are irregular and you need to learn them: child → children, man → men, woman → women, foot → feet, tooth → teeth, person → people. A few nouns don't change at all, like sheep and fish. A common mistake is to add -s to an irregular plural, as in 'childs' or 'peoples'.

  1. I have two (cat).

  2. The (boy) are playing football in the park.

  3. There are three (bus) in front of the school.

  4. How many (baby) are there in your family?

  5. We need four (tomato) for the salad.

  6. Can you put two (knife) on the table, please?

  7. Three (child) are waiting outside.

  8. Two (woman) and three (man) are in the shop.

  9. My (foot) are cold. Where are my socks?

  10. I brush my (tooth) twice a day.

  11. There are a lot of (person) at the beach today.

  12. My uncle has a farm with twenty (sheep).

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