{"id":85,"date":"2017-11-20T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/?p=85"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:57:34","slug":"english-362-chapter-8-special-plurals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/11\/20\/english-362-chapter-8-special-plurals\/","title":{"rendered":"English 362: Chapter 8: Special Plurals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heyo Pwips!\u00a0Let&#8217;s talk about plurals!<\/p>\n<p>Most nouns are made plural by simply adding -s to the end. However, there are some special English\u00a0\u00a0nouns and nouns that come from Latin or Greek that we use. These nouns do not follow the pattern of simply adding -s. Lets take a look at the singular and the plural forms of these nouns.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Special English Plurals:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>child=children<\/li>\n<li>Woman=women<\/li>\n<li>man=men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also special plurals for common animals<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bull\/cow=cattle<\/li>\n<li>sheep=sheep<\/li>\n<li>mouse=mice<\/li>\n<li>deer=deer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Latin and Greek Plurals<\/h4>\n<p>Latin and Greek nouns sometimes\u00a0form their plurals based on Latin and Greek rules. Here are examples of such plurals:<\/p>\n<p>Words that end in &#8211;<em>us<\/em> usually make their plurals in &#8211;<em>i<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fungus=fungi<\/li>\n<li>nucleus=nuclei<\/li>\n<li>focus=foci<\/li>\n<li>alumnus=alumni<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words that end in &#8211;<em>a<\/em>, have a plural &#8211;<em>ae<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>alumna=alumnae<\/li>\n<li>emerita=emeritae<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words that end in &#8211;<em>um<\/em> (Latin) or &#8211;<em>on<\/em> (Greek) form their plural in <em>-a<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>erratum=errata<\/li>\n<li>criterion=criteria<\/li>\n<li>corrigendum=corrigenda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Exception<\/strong>: Often writers identify the -a plural of this type as the singular form. For example, criteria and phenomena are often used as singular nouns (the criteria\/the phenomena is&#8230;) but not always. <em>Agenda<\/em>, however, has become a singular form. (see page 149)<\/p>\n<p>Words that end in &#8211;<em>is<\/em> form the plural with &#8211;<em>es<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>crisis=crises<\/li>\n<li>analysis=analyses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heyo Pwips!\u00a0Let&#8217;s talk about plurals! Most nouns are made plural by simply adding -s to the end. However, there are some special English\u00a0\u00a0nouns and nouns that come from Latin or Greek that we use. These nouns do not follow the pattern of simply adding -s. Lets take a look at the singular and the plural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/2017\/11\/20\/english-362-chapter-8-special-plurals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English 362: Chapter 8: Special Plurals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[561789],"tags":[637805,17423,671312,670813,670542,670393,670915],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-362","tag-chapter-8","tag-greek","tag-irregular-plurals","tag-latin","tag-nouns","tag-plurals","tag-special-plurals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/pwpmentors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}