3rd Grade Grammar Wonders Unit 2 Week 3 ~ Special Nouns

Grammar Wonders Unit 2 Week 3

Irregular Plural Nouns

• Some nouns have special plural forms. They do not add -s or -es to form a plural.

• Men, women, and children are the irregular plural noun forms of man, woman, and child.

• Mice is the irregular plural of the noun mouse.

Collective Nouns name groups or people, places, or things

• band

• family

• crowd

• swarm

• herd

Irregular Plural Nouns

• A few plural nouns have the same singular and plural forms:

• fish

• sheep

• deer

• moose

• scissors

• swine

A few plural nouns change spellings but do not add -s or -es

• tooth/teeth

• goose/geese

• foot/feet

• die/dice

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling for the plural of tooth?

• tooths

• teeth

• toothes

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling for the plural of child?

• childs

• child's

• children

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling for the plural of deer?

• deer

• deers

• deer's

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling for the plural of woman?

• wemen

• women

• womans

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling for the plural of tooth?

• tooths

• teeth

• toothes

Spelling Plural Nouns

• A few plural nouns change spellings but do not add -s or -es

• A few plural nouns are spelled exactly the same as the singular form

• To check the spelling of a plural noun, look up the singular form in a dictionary

Proofread ~ Get out your whiteboards to write these sentences correctly!

• There wear ten sheeps eating grass.

• i saw some mouses running in the prairie.

• Greg was drawing some tooths on his pumpking.

• Carol, Brad, and tonya are member of the Miller family.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling of the plural of life?

• lifes

• life's

• lives

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling of the plural of mouse?

• mouse's

• mouses

• mice

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling of the plural of knife?

• knifes

• knife's

• knive's

• knives

Multiple Choice

What is the correct spelling of the plural of goose?

• geeses

• geese

• gooses

• goose's