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English Year 4 Grammar
 Plural nouns can be formed in the following ways:
构成复数名词的方式有下列几种：

(a) adding ‘-s’ to nouns (b) adding ‘-es’ to nouns ending in ‘-sh’,
名词加上后缀“-s” ‘-ch’, ‘-ss’ and ‘-x’

ant – ants 以“-sh”“-ch”“-ss”和“-x”结尾
banana – bananas 的名词，加上后缀“-es”
bicycle – bicycles address – addresses
daughter – daughters boss – bosses
grape – grapes box – boxes
king – kings eyelash – eyelashes
magazine – magazines fox – foxes
picture – pictures inch – inches
rose – roses kiss – kisses
vase – vases patch – patches

peach – peaches
(c) changing the ‘-y’ in some nouns to wish – wishes
‘-ies’
把一些名词中的“-y”换成“-ies” (d) changing ‘-f ’ or ‘-fe’ to ‘-ves’

army – armies 把“-f ”或“-fe”换成“-ves”
baby – babies calf – calves
beauty – beauties half – halves
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country – countries
housewife – housewives
duty – duties knife – knives
enemy – enemies life – lives
fairy – fairies loaf – loaves
library – libraries sheaf – sheaves
spy – spies shelf – shelves
strawberry – strawberries thief – thieves

wolf – wolves
(e) certain plural nouns are different in
form from the singular (f) certain plural nouns are same in
一些复数名词和单数的形式大不相同 form with the singular
cactus – cacti 一些复数名词和单数的形式相同
child – children advice – advice
foot – feet aircraft – aircraft
fungus – fungi deer – deer
goose – geese furniture – furniture
louse – lice information – information
mouse – mice knowledge – knowledge
ox – oxen news – news
person – people salmon – salmon
tooth – teeth scenery – scenery
woman – women sheep – sheep

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