PDF-Plurals & Possessives

Plural NounsJust because a plural noun ends in doesn146t mean it needs an apostrophe Use the apostrophe only for a possessive nounHere are some EXCEPTION There are noneThe exception rule shown u. Remember to include plurals and alternative spellings Keywords for this topic could include Concept 1 email electronic mail Concept 2 security privacy spam E ready to search For more help with identifying keywords please see the Think Plan Discover “Life Under Ice”. Singular & Plural Nouns. To form the plural form of . most. nouns, add –s. Girl/girls. School/schools. Elephant/Elephants. To form the plural form of nouns ending in . s, . Troublemakers . house – houses box - boxes. mouse – mice ox - oxen. hero – heroes safe - safes. banjo – banjos knife - knives. cupful – cupfuls foot - feet. passerby – passersby tooth - teeth. diachrony. 4. th. International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. Université. Lyon 2. 17/06/2013. . Christopher Lucas. . SOAS, University of London. . Michael . Spagnol. . . Albert . Gatt. . By the end of this lesson you should be able to:. Identify when the plural needs to be indicated using . ies. or s. Identify when you should create the plural by adding . es. Get thinking. Plurals ending in the s sound have two different ways of being written. . Grammar Toolkit. Plural nouns. child. children. Grammar Toolkit. Plural nouns. A noun can be . singular. , . naming just one . thing, or . plural. , . naming . more . than . one thing. .. The way to make a noun plural usually depends on the ending of the singular noun.. Definite Articles. “el” becomes “los”. “la” becomes “. las. ”. Indicators that a noun is masculine:. - nouns . that refer to a male. person. - most . nouns that end in “. o. ”. Indicators that a noun is feminine:. +s. an apple-apples. +ES. (if nouns ending in –. s,-ss. ,. -. ch. ,-x,-o). a tomato-tomatoes. BUT:. radio-radios. piano-pianos. photo-photos. rhino-rhinos. hippo-hippos. video-videos. Nouns ending in a . From the. UWF Writing Lab’s 101 . Grammar Mini-Lessons Series. Mini-Lesson #77. . *In some cases the apostrophe may be omitted.. Use an apostrophe and . –s. to form the plurals of letters, numbers, symbols, and words named as words. . Knowing How to use the apostrophe + S. Possessive Nouns--Singular. A possessive noun is a noun that names who or what has something…hence the word . possessive. …. Most singular nouns require an ’s to show possession.. One and More. A noun is a name of a person, place or thing.. Shoe. Leaf. Ball. Car. Story. Clock. Brush. Nouns can be more than one.. Brushes. Doors. Balloons. Monkeys. Cups. Adding . s. to make plurals.. Apostrophes – Three Uses. The apostrophe has three uses. :. To form possessives of nouns. To show the omission of letters. To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters. Forming Possessives of Nouns. A noun is possessive if a phrase can be changed to say that an item or idea belongs to someone else.. Example:. . The musket that belongs to Pa. was lost.. . Pa’s musket. was lost.. Please take 5-10 minutes to write a well developed paragraph in response to one of the following quotes. Include your reactions/personal thoughts and an example based on your life experience.. Quote 1: “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he comes your partner.” –Nelson Mandela.