Author: Joan Sandin Genre: Historical Fiction Big Question: How can we work together to achieve a goal? Author: Joan Sandin Genre: Historical Fiction

Grammar Regular Plural Nouns

Regular Plural Nouns Many of the kids on the ranches rode ponies. The underlined words are nouns, plural nouns. They name more than one person, place, or thing. Some nouns form their plural by adding an -s, -es, or –ies.

Regular Plural Nouns Singular nouns name one person, place, or thing. Plural nouns name more than one person, place, or thing. Add –s to form the plural of most nouns. school/schools, dog/dogs, cow/cows

Regular Plural Nouns Add –es to form the plural of nouns that end in ch, sh, s, ss, or x. ranch/ranches, bush/bushes, bus/buses, cross/crosses, fox/foxes

Regular Plural Nouns To form the plural of nouns that end in a consonant followed by a y, change the y to i and add –es. family/families, party/parties, pony/ponies

Regular Plural Nouns Find the plural noun in each sentence. The students had a long bus ride to school. students They squeezed together like sardines in a can. sardines

Regular Plural Nouns Find the plural noun in each sentence. Several families from the area rode the bus. families They lived on ranches and went to the same school. ranches

Regular Plural Nouns Find the plural noun in each sentence. There were no big cities nearby. cities

Regular Plural Nouns Write each singular noun as a plural. chicken chickens story stories newspaper newspapers

Regular Plural Nouns Write each singular noun as a plural. box boxes baby babies recess recesses

Regular Plural Nouns Write each singular noun as a plural. teacher teachers dish dishes bench benches