Thursday, November 6, 2014

Plural Nouns to Remember

    Today we are remembering another issue we have previously discussed, because the plural nouns are used frequently and we must keep in mind the spelling.
     Most nouns make their plurals by simply adding –s to the end (e.g. cat/cats, book/books, journey/journeys). Some do change their endings, though, the main types of noun that do this are:

1. Words ending in a consonant + "y": "y" changes to "i" and add "es".
party / parties (fiesta/s)
city / cities (ciudad/es)

2. Words ending in a vowel + "and" add an "s".
boy / boys (chico/s)
toy / toys (juguete/s)

3. Words ending in "s", "ss", "sh", "ch", "x", "or" add "is".
bus / buses (bus/es)
glass / glasses (copa/s)
brush / brushes (cepillo/s)
watch / watches (reloj/es)
box / boxes (caja/s)
tomato / tomatoes (tomate/s)
 There’s one exception to this rule. If the -ch ending is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound, you add -s rather than -es:
singular    plural
stomach    stomachs
epoch    epochs

4. Words that end in -f or -fe usually change the f sound to a v sound and add s or -es.
leaf / leaves (hoja/s)
wife / wives (esposa/s)
There are, however, exceptions: more than one dwarf = dwarfs; more than one roof = roofs



     SpellingCity gives an interesting list of words that includes many of the rules discussed above.



Fingers                                                  
     
   Many other nouns are pluralized in an irregular manner. There are two cases:
   




Foxes
  

 1. When the plural and singular do not change.
 

fish (peces o pescados)        sheep (ovejas)         




Wishes
   2. When the plural varies irregularly. There are several nouns that have irregular plural forms. Plurals formed in this way are sometimes called mutated (or mutating) plurals.



 Cities

   
    more than one child = children
    more than one woman = women
    





 Visitors

   
    
    more than one goose = geese
    more than one barracks = barracks
   







Ladies

    
    
    more than one man = men
    more than one person = people
  







Classes


 more than one deer = deer
 more than one tooth = teeht





Wolves

  
more than one foot = feet
more than one goose = geese






Mice


more than one louse = lice

more than one cactus = cacti





Branches

  

  more than one appendix = appendices
  more than one ox = oxen







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Monday, November 3, 2014

Short Vowels Review

     Hey guys!!! I have already returned to continue the second phase of the blog, something like a second season as in  television series ... lol ... I will continue with the same dynamics: each entry will be related to the lesson daily of VocabularySpellingCity, and this time we will be trying lists words for fourth grade.
     So we start with a reminder of a very important issue that we saw in the first stage: Short Vowels Sound

     When there is one vowel in a word, either at the beginning or between two consonants, it usually has the short vowel sound. A short vowel word is any word that does not allow the vowel within it to generate that vowel’s long vowel sound.For instance, the word bug is a short vowel word, because there is no long U sound. 
      You can see that a vowel is usually short when there is only one vowel in a word or syllable, as in cat, bed, and hot; but a word doesn’t necessarily have to have three letters to be a short vowel word, although it makes for the easiest example, and three-lettered words make up the bulk of any list of words with short vowels. However, there are exceptions to this rule, such as with irregular vowels.


 -I should get credit for access to my favorite college
farm ranch is abandoned.


-My shadow is cast on the wall when I interpose between it and the light.


-The drink is very chilly


-The girl put her head on the boy's chest and hugged him


-I have lunch at 2 pm every day.


-The frog jumps in puddles and likes hunting flies


-The girl split the candy to share with her ​​little sister


-The car trunk is full of luggage

-We must solve the exercise which left the teacher in math class



     Here you have a great list!!! and I leave you a  funny video about Short Vowels too.


1. Short vowel a words
ant
pan
wag
jam
cat
bad
ax
ran
flag
and
bat
dad
wax
van
cap
band
hat
has
can
gas
map
hand
pat
mad
fan
bag
nap
sand
rat
sad
man
tag
ham
lamp
sat
glass
2. Short vowel e words
egg
bed
test
jet
hen
fell
leg
fed
vest
met
men
hell
sled
red
west
net
pen
sell
step
nest
web
pet
ten
well
tent
rest
get
wet
bell
smell
3. Short vowel i words
dig
tip
hid
crib
sit
fill
pig
pin
kid
fist
bit
hill
wig
sin
lid
list
fit
kill
dip
tin
bib
milk
hit
pill
hip
win
fib
silk
pit
will
lip
did
rib
swim
mitt
him
4. Short vowel o words
God
hop
stop
jot
fox
cob
nod
mop
cot
not
ox
mob
pod
pop
dot
pot
box
rob
rod
top
got
rot
pox
sob
sod
drop
hot
tot
mom
pond
5. Short vowel u words
cub
gun
buzz
dug
tug
bus
tub
run
but
hug
cuff
dump
bud
sun
cut
jug
puff
hump
mud
cup
nut
mug
gum
jump
gull
pup
bug
rug
yum
pump







































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