Grammar
Name
More Plural
Nouns/Spellings
• To form the plural of most nouns ending in f or fe, add -s.
• For others, change the f to v and add -es.
Write the plural form of each singular noun below.
1. half
2. wolf
3. loaf
4. dwarf
5. life
6. wife
7. puff
8. knife
9. spoof
Rewrite these sentences using the correct plural form.
10. Rosita is one of many executive cheves at the restaurant.
11. Rosita owns several expensive knifes, which she uses in her work.
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12. She keeps her pots and pans on the shelfs above the stove.
At Home: Have the student choose five of the plural nouns
above and use them in a sentence.
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Grammar
Name
More Plural Nouns
• To form the plural of nouns that end with a vowel and o, add -s.
• To form the plural of nouns that end with a consonant and o,
add -s or -es.
• Some nouns have special plural forms.
• A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
Write the plural form of each singular noun below.
1. mouse
2. rodeo
3. potato
4. ox
5. concerto
6. silo
7. wolf
8. self
9. child
10. moose
11. headquarters
12. knife
13. ratio
14. mix
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15. goose
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At Home: Have the student write a paragraph in which he or
she uses five of the nouns above in plural form.
Grammar
Name
Mechanics: Using
Correct Plural Forms
•
•
•
•
To form the plural of most nouns ending in f or fe, add -s.
For other nouns, change the f to v and add -es.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a vowel and o, add -s.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a consonant and o,
add -s or -es.
• Some nouns have special plural forms that must be memorized.
• A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
Read each sentence. If the sentence contains an incorrect plural
form, rewrite it using the correct plural form. If the sentence is
correct, write C on the line.
1. Alicia’s father took photoes of the hurricane damage.
2. There were knifes all over the kitchen floor after the storm.
3. The children helped to pick up fallen branches in the yard.
4. Some familys had nowhere to live.
5. The local grocery store donated many boxs of food.
6. Everybody ate lots of potatos the week after the storm.
7. The roofs came off completely on several houses.
8. Lots of people became heros overnight.
9. They delivered loafs of bread and gallons of milk to hungry people.
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10. Men and womans all over the town handed out ice and water.
At Home: Have the student make flash cards with the singular
spelling on the front and the plural spelling on the back.
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Grammar
Proofreading: Plural
Nouns and Their
Correct Spellings
Name
•
•
•
•
To form the plural of most nouns ending in f or fe, add -s.
For other nouns, change the f to v and add -es.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a vowel and o, add -s.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a consonant and o,
add -s or -es.
• Some nouns have special plural forms that must be memorized.
• A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
Proofread this passage. Then rewrite the
passage using the correct plural form. Correct
any mistakes in capitalization or punctuation.
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since I live in florida, I have a lot of personal
experience with hurricanes. This summer, four
hurricanes hit the state of florida my parents
made sure we had plenty of canned food water
and diapers for the baby batterys were in short
supply at the store, and all the familys on my
street rushed out to buy the few battery-powered
radioes left on the store shelfs we were safe and
dry in our house we had three loafs of bread and
lots of peanut butter
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At Home: Invite the student to write a short paragraph about
a rain- or snowstorm, using at least three plural nouns in their
writing.
Grammar
Name
Test: More
Plural Nouns
Put a circle around the noun or nouns that are spelled correctly in each row.
1. mouses
wolves
womens
2. bluffs
wifes
zooes
3. radioes
deers
moose
4. geese
studioes
lifes
5. siloes
oxen
mans
Rewrite the nouns from the lists above that are not spelled correctly.
Then use each noun in a sentence.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
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12.
13.
14.
15.
At Home: Ask the student to write a short paragraph on the
subject of mice, or deer, using the correct plural forms of
these nouns.
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Grammar
Name
Review: More
Plural Nouns
•
•
•
•
To form the plural of most nouns ending in f or fe, add -s.
For other nouns, change the f to v and add -es.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a vowel and o, add -s.
To form the plural of nouns that end with a consonant and o,
add -s or -es.
• Some nouns have special plural forms that must be memorized.
• A few nouns have the same singular and plural forms.
Correct the errors in plural nouns in each sentence. Write the sentence
with the correct capital letters.
1. Some animals were as small as gooses. Some animals were as large as
oxes.
2. When hurricanes hit zooes, all animals, great and small, suffer.
3. The force of the wind blew the rooves off the animal cagess.
5. They listened on their radioes for news about the hurricane.
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he or she uses five of the words above in plural form.
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4. Everybody at zoo headquarteres was very worried.