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.

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2.  That Frenchman in buying a hat.

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3.  The lady is near the church.

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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