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Some nouns ending in - f or -fe are made plural by changing - f or -fe to -ves: beef -
beetres (яловичина, м’ясо), wife - wives.
Remember that the following form their plurals by adding - s: chief – chiefs, mischief -
mischiefs (6iда, лиxo), hoof - hoofs (копита), roof - roofs, grief -griefs (гope), safe - safes.
Some nouns have irregular plural forms: man – men, foot – feet, mouse – mice, woman -
women, tooth – teeth, louse - lice (воші), child - children, ox - oxen, goose – geese.
The following nouns have no singular: scissors, oats, tongs, trousers, pinchers, cattle,
shears, measles, mumps, victuals, tweezers, vespers (ножиці, овес, щипці, брюки, кліщі,
худоба, великі ножиці, кір, свинка, продовольство, пінцет, всеношна)
Some nouns are always singular: Іome of these nouns may be used in the plural when
diааerent kinds are meant as sugars, coffees, cottons: gold, silver, wheat, corn, copper, sugar,
cotton (золото, срібло, пшениця, кукурудза, мідь, цукор, бавовна).

Task 8. How do these nouns change in the plural? Find the right category.

Task 9. Choose the right forms of English nouns either singular or plural.
1. How many _____ do you have in your 6. He put on his _____ and went to bed.
bag? - pyjama
- keys - pyjamas
- key
7. I have two _____.
2. I don't like _____. I'm afraid of them. - babies
- mouse - baby
- mice
8. I like your ______. Where did you buy it?
3. I need a new pair of _____. - trouser
- jean - trousers
- jeans
9. I have four ______.
4. They are riding their _____. - dictionaries
- bicycles - dictionary
- bicycle
10. There are two _____ in the shop.
5. There are three _____ on my desk. - woman
- book - women
- books

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