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English Class 2-19-08
Spelling/Grammar/Reading
Spelling Test
• Are you ready?
• Are YOU ready?
• Are you ready to take the spelling
test!?!?!?!
Review Corner
• We are going to quickly review over the
singular/plural rules, proper nouns, and
possessive nouns
Singular to Plural Rules
• 1st Rule
– Regular Nouns- add “s” to the end.
• 2nd Rule
– Nouns that end with “y” with a vowel before
it, add “s” to make it plural.
– Nouns that end with “y”, change it to “-ies”
Singular to Plural Rules
• If a singular noun ends in sh, ch, ss, s, or x, add
“-es”
– Examples
• Egg-> Eggs
• Ray-> Rays
• Army-> Armies
• Brush-> Brushes
• Wrench-> Wrenches
• Witch-> Witches
• Pass-> Passes
• Gas-> Gases
• Box-> Boxes
Singular to Plural Rules
• 4th Rule
– If the word ends in “f” or “fe” change to “ves”
• Knife-> Knives
• Life-> Lives
– Examples?
Singular to Plural Rules
• 5th Rule
– Irregular Nouns
• Some nouns have no rules with them. These are
nouns you must memorize and know.
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Child-> Children
Man-> Men
Fish-> Fish
Ox-> Oxen
Mouse-> Mice
• Examples?
Possessive Nouns
• There are 3 rules when dealing with
possessive nouns
– Add “ ‘s” to singular noun
• The boy’s calculator was stolen.
– Add “ ‘s” to plural noun that does not end in
s.
• The men’s clothes are on sale today.
– Add just an apostrophe to a plural noun that
already ends in “s”
• The boys’ locker room is smelly.
Practice Exercise (Possessive
Noun)
• Identify if the correct answer is “ ‘s” or
just apostrophe:
– Cat
– People
– Laptop
– Buses
– Schools
– Monkey
Exercise
– Cat -> Cat’s
– People-> People’s
– Laptop-> Laptop’s
– Buses-> Buses’
– Schools-> Schools’
– Monkey-> Monkey’s
Subject Pronouns
• These are pronouns that replace the noun
in the subject position.
– Where is the subject position?
• The subject position is always in front of the verb.
– Example:
 The dog ate the cat.
Subject Pronouns
Singular
Plural
1st Person
I
We
2nd Person
You
You
3rd Person
He/She/It
They
Subject Pronouns
• Exercises- Replace each of the nouns
listed with the correct subject pronoun:
– Alex Teacher ->
– Tables ->
– Jeremy->
– Computer->
– Gina ->
– Amber and Erika->
– Alex Teacher -> He
– Tables -> They
– Jeremy-> He
– Computer-> It
– Gina ->She
– Amber and Erika-> They
Object Pronouns
• A pronoun used as the object of an action
verb is an object pronoun.
– In other words, the noun after the verb.
• The dog ate the cat.
Object Pronouns
Singular
Plural
1st Person
Me
Us
2nd Person
You
You
3rd Person
Him/ Her/ It
Them
Subject/Object Pronoun
• Replace all subject/object nouns with
subject/object pronouns
– Jeremy ate a sandwich.
– Amber is talking to Gina.
– Erika is talking on the phone.
– Alex Teacher is talking to two students.
Subject/Object Pronouns
– Jeremy ate a sandwich.
• He ate it.
– Amber is talking to Gina.
• She is talking to her.
– Erika is talking on the phone.
• She is talking on it.
– Alex Teacher is talking to two students.
• He is talking to them.