1. Making Words Plural… It’s a Piece of Cake!

2. Just add -s Most of the time….. boy……………….boys girl………………..girls
town………………towns
monkey…………..monkeys
flag………………….flags
tree…………………..trees

3. You try some!!
Apple
Cow
Marker
Lip
Wall

4. Sometimes you need to add…
es! You add –es when a word ends in ch sh x

5. Let’s do some examples!
church……………………………..churches brush……………………………….brushes box…………………………………..boxes fox…………………………………..foxes lunch…………………………………lunches

6. Your turn!
Branch
Eyelash
Bush
Bench Ax

7. Sometimes, you have to change some letters
You change the “y” to an “i”
and you add “es”
You do this for words that have a consonant right before the “y” in a word
Vowels are………………..A, E, I, O, U
Consonants are……………..all of the other letters
So………………….

8. Here is how we would make these words plural---
baby……………………………………babies lady…………………………………….ladies city…………………………………….cities

9. If you just add an –s, -es, or change the “y” to an “i” and add –es, the words are said to be
REGULAR plural nouns

10. But ….there are the “trouble-maker” words
These are called IRREGULAR plurals because They don’t follow the rules! Look out for them because they are EVERYWHERE…just waiting to try and see if they can trick you!

11. But they won’t!!!!
Why? I am going to show you what they look like!! child………childs? (NO) child………childes? (NO) child……….children (YES!)

12. Here are some more!
mouse………mouses? (NO) mouse……….meeses? (NO) mouse………..mice? (YES!) deer…………..deers (NO!) deer……………deeres (NO!) deer……………deer (YES!!)

13. You try some!
foot…………………………… goose……………………….. tooth…………………………. man………………………………. woman………………………

14. You are awesome!