quarta-feira, 29 de junho de 2011

GRAMÁTICA: PLURAL OF NOUNS - PLURAL DOS SUBSTANTIVOS


PLURAL DOS SUBSTANTIVOS [PLURAL OF NOUNS]
·     
De maneira geral, faz-se o plural acrescentando-se “S” à forma do singular.
Ex: table – tables    girl – girls   chief – chiefs        safe – safes
·      Substantivos terminados em s, ss, sh, ch, x, z  e  o recebem “es”.
Ex:  bus – buses           church – churches       brush – brushes
        box – boxes          buzz – buzzes         tomato – tomatoes
·      Substantivos terminados em “y” precedido de consoante: substitui-se  o “y” por “i” e acrescenta-se “es”.
Ex: lady – ladies   sky – skies
·      Plural  irregular:
Ex: man – men    woman – women        mouse – mice
       foot – feet     tooth – teeth               child – children
·      Alguns substantivos terminados em “f” ou “fe” mudam o  “f” ou “fe” para “v” e recebem “es”.
Ex: calf – calves           life – lives              shelf – shelves
        half – halves         life – lives              thief – thieves
        knife – knives       self – selves          wife – wives
        leaf – leaves         sheaf – sheaves   wolf – wolves
·      Palavras estrangeiras abreviadas terminadas em “o” recebem “s”.
Ex: casino – casinos            hippo – hippos
        photo – photos            piano – pianos
·      Palavras estrangeiras consersam o plural de origem.
Ex: bacterium – bacteria   crisis – crises                genius – genii
        datum – data               basis – bases                nucleus – nuclei

EXERCISES
I – Write the plural of the following nouns in the correct list.
[Escreva o plural dos seguintes substantivos na lista correta]
policeman
peach
chief
key
Box
door
brush
berry
bus
Pen
century
book
toy
potato
Window
echo
woman
child
country
Watch

-        s
-        es
-        ies
irregular





































II – Put the sentences into plural form.
[Ponha as sentenças na forma de plural]
1.  This is an old woman.
_______________________________________
2.  That Frenchman in buying a hat.
_______________________________________
3.  The lady is near the church.
_______________________________________
4.  My cousin isn’t a chief.
_______________________________________
5.  The photo on the piano is very old.
_______________________________________
6.  The child is looking at the window.
_______________________________________
7.  There is knife and a spoon on the table.
_______________________________________
8.  The mouse is eating a lily in the garden.
_______________________________________
9.  The boy is in the bathroom.
_______________________________________
10.                  The box of tomato id in the refrigerator.
_______________________________________

III – Complete the sentences with the plural of the words from the box.
[Complete as sentenças com o plural das palavras da caixa}



 
 _________________________________________
man       foot       potato     leaf         watch
child    country         dress     bacterium     century
 __________________________________________



1.  Look! Her _________ are wet.
2.  I happened two _________ ago.
3.  They sell _________ at that store.
4.  Some _________ are vey helpful in the house.
5.  We’ve bought some _________ to eat.
6.  Those ladies are from different _________.
7.  The _________ are playing in front of the house now.
8.   Their _________ were old fashioned.
9.  The scientist found some new _________ last year.
10.                  In Autumn all the _________ fall down from the trees.

Fonte: Simplfied english grammar aquarius - by Eduardo Amos, Elisabeth Prescher and Eduardo Pasqualin
Editora Moderna

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