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

2. Grammar
Regular Plural Nouns

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

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

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