Proper Nouns

Common Nouns

Tim Baker

Europe

Great Britain

London

the Grand (Hotel)

Oxford Street

Penny Lane

the Thames

the British Museum

the Daily News

Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

a boy (two boys)

a man (three men)

a table (four tables)

a city (ten cities)

people

scissors

bread

water

love

equality

clothing

furniture

permission

length

cotton

tea

peace

ignorance

leisure

equipment

activity

news

Countable Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

a brick – кирпич (один)

a chocolate – шоколадная конфета

a fire – пожар, костер

a grammar – грамматика (учебник)

a hair – волосок

an iron – утюг

a justice – судья

a light – огонек, лампа

a paper – газета, документ

a play – пьеса

a time – раз

a wood – лес

a work of art – произведение искусства

a glass, glasses – стакан, очки

a grass – травинка

brick – кирпич (строительный материал)

chocolate – шоколад

fire – огонь

grammar – грамматика (наука)

hair – волосы

iron – железо

justice – справедливость

light – свет

paper – бумага

play – игра

time – время

wood – дерево (древесина)

work – работа

glass – стекло

grass – трава

Singular number

Plural number

Основа + окончание -s

a boy, a table, a trick, a whiff, a smith, a railway

boys, tables, tricks, whiffs, smiths, railways

Основа + окончание –es после –s, -ch, -tch, -sh, -ss, -x, -o

a bench, a bus, a glass, a bush, a brush, a match, a box, a potato

benches, buses, glasses, bushes, brushes, matches, boxes, potatoes

Конечная буква –у (после согласной) меняется на -ies

an army, a country, a fly, a lady

armies, countries, flies, ladies

Конечная буква –f(-fe) меняется на –ves

a calf, a half, a knife, a leaf, a shelf, a wife, a wolf

calves, halves, knives, leaves, shelves, wives, wolves

Compound Nouns

a manservant, a schoolgirl, a woman-teacher, a mother-in-law,

a passer-by, a man-of-war, a forget-me-not

menservants, schoolgirls, women-teachers, mothers-in-law,

passers-by, men-of-war, forget-me-nots

Singular number

Plural number

Изменяется корневая гласная, добавляется окончание –en

a man, a woman, a foot, a tooth, a goose, a mouse, a louse,

an ox, a child

men, women, feet, teeth, geese, mice, lice, oxen, children

Существительные, заимствованные из латыни, греческого и французского языков

a radius, a corpus, a formula, a bacterium,

a crisis, a criterion, an index, a bureau

radii (или radiuses), corpora, formulae (или formulas), bacteria,

crises, criteria, indices, bureaux

Одинаковая форма для единственного и множественного числа

a deer, a sheep, a salmon, a trout, a cod, an aircraft, a spacecraft,

a crossroads, a means, a series, a species, a works

deer, sheep, salmon, trout, cod, aircraft, spacecraft,

crossroads, means, series, species, works

Special Cases

Only Singular number

Only Plural number

advice, information, news, measles, mumps physics, knowledge, furniture, luggage, gymnastics, athletics, bowls,

billiards, dominoes, darts, draughts

annals, archives, arms (weapons), belongings, clothes, cattle, poultry, scissors, dregs, earnings, wages, goods, trousers, binoculars, shorts, shoes, gloves, pyjamas, glasses, spectacles, earrings, socks, outskirts, premises, tights, remains, pliers, riches, surroundings, thanks, the tropics, whereabouts, people, police, stairs, (good)looks,