Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals

Ending in -Y

When a word ends in -y, the -y changes to -ies when it becomes plural.

If a word ends in -ay, -ey, -iy, or -oy, the -y does not change.

Those berries look delicious!

Ending in -O

When a word ends with an -o, add -es to the end of the word when it becomes plural.

Do you know how many potatoes can fit in this sack?

Ending in -F or -Fe

When a word ends with an -f or -fe, change the -f or -fe to -ves when it becomes plural.

There are a bunch of loaves of bread on the counter.

Open Ended

The bear ate red berry / berrys / berries.

Rewrite the sentence with the correct underlined word.

Open Ended

To build my bookcase, I had to put in many shelf / shelfs / shelves.

Open Ended

How many potato / potatos / potatoes are you going to buy?

Open Ended

Did you put a lot of tomato / tomatos / tomatoes in this dinner?

Open Ended

It is said that cats have nine life / lifes / lives.

Open Ended

We saw several puppy / puppys / puppies at the park today.

Open Ended

I heard there are two active volcano / volcanos / volcanoes on this island.

Open Ended

I'll have three loaf / loafs / loaves of bread, please.