读音变化:加读[z]。
例:candy→candies; daisy→daisies; fairy→fairies; lady→ladies; story→stories
四、以-o结尾的名词,如果不是外来词或缩写,就加-es,否则加-s构成复数。 读音变化:加读[z]。
例:tomato→tomatoes; potato→potatoes; torpedo→torpedoes; bingo→bingoes
反例:silo→silos; piano→pianos(外来词); photo→photos; 五、以-f或-fe结尾的名词,多为将-f或-fe改变为-ves,但有例外。 读音变化:尾音[f]改读[vz]。
例:knife→knives; life→lives; leaf→leaves; staff→staves; scarf→scarves 反例:roof→roofs
六、部分单词的复数形式不变。 读音变化:保持原音。
例:fish→fish; sheep→sheep; cattle→cattle; deer→deer; 七、极少数单词,其复数形式没有任何规律。 读音变化:没有规律。
例:man→men; woman→women; child→children; person→people; ox→oxen
八、一些单数词得改头换面一番,才能变成复数词
例: foot→feet; man→men mouse→mice; tooth→teeth; woman→women
九、有些名词是单数、复数不分的
例:deer; fish; cannon; sheep; salmon 鲑鱼; trout 鳟鱼 十、一些名词虽分单数、复数,但出现次数多的总是单数词
例:abscence; clothing; film; help; furniture家具; machinery机械; news; scenery风景; sugar; traffic交通
十一、另一些名词则以复数词出现的机会较多
例:bellows风箱; clothes; police; shorts短裤; scissors剪刀; spectacles眼镜; shears大剪刀
trousers长裤; wages工资
十二、若表达具体数目,要借助数量词
例:pair(对,双); suit(套); a pair of glasses; two pairs of trousers 十三、另外还有一些名词,其复数形式有时可表示特别意思, 例:goods货物,waters水域,fishes(各种)鱼
十四、除人民币元、角、分外,美元、英镑、法郎等都有复数形式。 例:a dollar, two dollars; a meter, two meters
以O结尾的词,许多加es构成复数,特别是一些常用词如:heroes,potatoes,tomatoes,echoes,tornadoes,torpedoes,dominoes,vetoes,mosquitoes,Negroes,mangoes,buffaloes,volcanoes 但下面几类词只加s:1.以“元音+o”或“oo”结尾的词 如:videos,radios,studios,,zoos,bamboos,kangaroos, 2.一些外来词,特别是音乐方面的词,如:pianos,
3.一些缩写词和专有名词,如:kilos,photos, 写出下列名词复数
leaf______ puppy_______ box_______ knife_______ fly______ fox______ bus______ bench_____ brush_____ kiss______ church______ dish_____ ruler______ peach________ glass_____ pencil________ boy______ zoo______ man______ roof_______ sheep_______ knife______ lady______ key______ story______ watch______ bamboo______ city______ family______ day_____ apple_______ eraser______ speech______ thief______ mouse______ fish_____ goose____ people ______ ox_____ Chinese _______ deer _______ foot______ child_______ tooth_______ guy________ hero_______ spy______ boss_____ monkey______ city ______ goat ______ radio ________ horse ______ dog ______ 用所给的单词的复数的正确形式填空:
1>There are so many________(wolf)in the forest. 2>There are three ______(chair) in the classroom. 3>These _______(tomato) are red. 4>______(hero) are great.
5>My brother looks after two ______(baby) 6>There are some ______(deer) eating the grass. 7>My father likes to eat _______(potato). 8>Chinese ______(people)like to eat noodles. 9>I have a lot of ______(toy) in my bedroom.
10>I help my mother wash ______(dish) in the kitchen.
11>I have two ______(pencil-box). 12>There are some ______(bus)in the street. 13>Peter has eight _____(foot). 14>Linda has three _______(tooth).
15>There are some ______(child) in the garden. 16>Michael likes the ______(mouse).
17>There are some ______(goose)in the river. 18>My uncle and father are _____(man). 19>Tom and King are _____(boy). 20>Linda has three ______(tooth). 选出正确形式
1.I can see three ________ in the zoo. A monkeys B monkeys C monkey
2.The pig has four ______. A. foot B. feet C. foots 3.My two brothers are both ______.
A. policeman B. policemans C. policemen 4.There are four ___________ in the class. A. Japanese B. Japaneses C. Japan
5.I can see ten _____ in the picture. A. sheep B. dog C. pig 6.The _____ has three______.
A. boys, watches B. boy, watch C. boy, watches
7.C an you see _______on the plate? A. bread B. breads C. breades
8.The girl often brushes her_____ before she goes to bed. A. tooth B. tooths C. teeth
9.Mr Black often drink some _________.A. milk B. milks C.milkes 10.There are some _____ on the floor. A. child B. water C. books 11. _______ will learn English. A. Woman B. Women C. Man 12.Lucy will show us some new ____ of hers. A. photo B. photos C. photoes 13. I drank two ______.
A. bottles of orange B. bottle of orange C. bottles of oranges 14.The cat eats two ______ last night. A. mouses B. mice C. mouse 15.I need a pen and some _____. A. books B. desk C. chair
16 Jim was late for two classes this morning. He said that he forgot both of the ______.
A. rooms number B. Room number C. Room’s number D. Room numbers
17. The newly-built library is a ______ building.
A. five-storey B. five storeys C. five-storey’s D. five storeys’ 18. --- Whose umbrella is it? --- It’s _______.
A. somebody else’s B. Somebody else C. Somebody’s else’s D. Somebody’s else
19. I feel terribly hot, What’s the _____?
A. temperature of room B. Room’s temperature