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10. Which nouns ending in –f (e) have plurals in:

a) –ves

b) regular plural –s

c) both

11. Some irregular plurals involve a change of the vowel. Which ones?

12. The word ‘penny’ has got two plurals. What’s the difference between ‘pence’ and

‘pennies’?

13. ‘The word ‘brother’ has two plurals. Besides the usual ‘brothers’, there is one

more used in specific context. Which one?

14. Why do we say ‘Englishmen’ but not ‘Germen’?

15. Using the example of ‘sheep’ explain what is ‘zero plural’ + give examples in

sentences. What verb (sg or pl) is used with them? Can you name some other

similar nouns?

16. How do we use words such as ‘hundred’ and ‘thousand’. Do they have plural

forms? Give examples.

17. What do the following nouns have in common? Give examples in sentences:

means, species, series. Can you name any others like that?

18. Foreign plurals:

a) analysis –

e) medium -

b) appendix -

f) phenomenon -

c) bacterium -

g) stimulus -

d) crisis -

h) fungus -

19. Some compounds take plural –s in the last element, some in the first element.

Give examples of each.

20. When do collective nouns have a singular and when a plural verb?

21. Give examples of ‘appositional compounds’.

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