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Таble I

Nouns ending on a consonant or a vowelе

+s

dog — dogs

name — names

Nouns ending on

ss, х, sh, ch, о

+es

kiss — kisses

box — boxes

brush — brushes

church — churches

tomato — tomatoes

Nouns ending on y with previous consonant letter

y→i

+es

baby — babies

Plural nouns formation

Irregular nouns

Nouns having similar forms in singular and plural

deer — deer

sheep — sheep

swine — swine

Nouns ending on f and fe are changed for ves in plural forms

wolf — wolves

wife — wives

knife — knives

Nouns which change a vowel

in the root without any addition of endings in plural form

man — men

woman — women

tooth — teeth

goose — geese

foot — feet

mouse — mice

Nouns having only plural forms

trousers, glasses, clothes,

spectacles, scissors, goods

Nouns having only singular forms

sugar, milk, money,

weather, peace

Nouns childandох are changed into plural forms by adding new endings

child — children

ox — oxen

Remember! Some nouns derived from Greeck and Latin

Alveolus

alveoli

Analysis-

analyses

Bacterium

вacterium

Bacillus

bacilli

Datum

data

Coccus

cocci

Crisis

crises

Fungus

fungi

Nucleus

nuclei

Stimulus

stimuli

The indefinite article

a, an

Use

Examples

With a noun which means a profession

My sister is a doctor

With a noun after there is,there was andthere will be

There is a big hospital in our district.

There was a big hospital in our district.

There will be a big hospital in our district.

In exclamations

What a nice evening!

What a successful operation!

After such

It was such а wonderful day!

With a noun which means time, speed, weight, distance and so on…

I’ll be in a minute

With countable nouns in singular form ( in this case it means a single or any object among other ones)

Take a pill, please

Before a common, proper noun or surname (in this case the article has the meaning “someone, some”)

A man wants to see you

Before word combinations good day, great deal, great many

a good deal, a great deal,

a great many

With some expressions of quantity

a pair of, a little, a couple of, a few

We say “once a week, a day; a kilo”

about once a week, $ 1.50 a kilo, three times a day