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

band

family

crowd

swarm

herd

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

fish

sheep

deer

moose

scissors

swine

tooth/teeth

goose/geese

foot/feet

die/dice

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

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.