What is the difference between possessives and plurals?: Difference between revisions

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Plural means of or being a grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.  
Plural means of or being a grammatical form that designates more than one of the things specified.  
Two Types of Plurals:
*Regular Plurals
*Irregular Plurals


==Regular Plurals==
==Regular Plurals==
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*Some plural can only be pronounced by only adding a syllable. Add an “s” if the noun already ends in a silent “e.”  
*Some plural can only be pronounced by only adding a syllable. Add an “s” if the noun already ends in a silent “e.”  
==Irregular Plurals==
==Irregular Plurals==
*Nouns that end with -s, -z, -x, -sh, -ch 
Add -es
Examples: glass/glasses, buzz/buzzes, box/boxes, bush/bushes, switch/switches
*Nouns that end in -o 
Add -es
Examples: potato/potatoes, echo/echoes, hero/heroes
''*Note There may be come exceptions.''
*Nouns that end in a consonant + -y 
Change -y to -i and add -es
Examples: baby/babies, spy/spies, poppy/poppies
*Nouns that end in -f, or -fe 
Change the -f to -v and add -es
Examples:shelf/shelves, wolf/wolves, knife/knives, wife/wives


== Possessives ==
== Possessives ==
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   Plurals [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]
   Plurals [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm]
   Possessives [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm]
   Possessives [http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm]
   More Plurals [http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/crump.htm#Regular%20Plural%20Forms]
   More Plurals[http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/crump.htm#Regular20Plural%20Forms]
  Irregular Plurals [http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/pluralsn.htm]
== Works Citied ==
== Works Citied ==


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