Plural Nouns That End In Es. Fungus — fungi or funguses The most basic rule is to pluralize a noun by adding the suffix -s (as in voters); however, if the noun ends in -s, -x, -z, -sh, or -ch (with the exception—see, we already have an exception—of words ending in -ch pronounced with a hard k, like monarchs and stomachs), the suffix -es is added in order to create an extra syllable to pronounce the plural—as in goddesses, anticlimaxes. For example: the plural of cat is cats; the plural of flower is flowers, and the plural of computer is computers.
Objectives: Students will learn the spelling rule for adding the letters es to plural nouns.. For example, bases is the plural of base (formed by adding an "-s") and is also the irregular plural of basis (formed by replacing a final "-is" with a final "-es"). In most cases, we just add " s" to the end of a noun to make it plural.
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Students can do this activity in centers, individually or in small groups.
Plural nouns are words used to indicate that typically denotes more than one person, animal, thing, idea or instance. This change can happen in different ways. Most regular count nouns take the -s ending to form the plural.