2016年成人高考高起點英語復習:名詞(2)

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可數(shù)名詞的復數(shù)形式
    1.直接在詞尾加-s,如 desks, maps, cats, pens cars, farms
    2.以-s, -x, -ch, sh結尾的詞加-es :glasses, classes, buses, boxes, foxes, watches, matches, brushes, dishes(例外:stomachs 胃)
    3.以-O 結尾的詞:
    Negroes, heres, potatoes, tomatoes(有生命的名詞加-es);
    photos, pianos, kilos, radios, zoos studios(無生命的名詞加-es)
    4.輔音字母+y 結尾的,把y 變?yōu)閕再加es :
    city-cities, story-stories, baby-babies, dictionary-dictionaries,
    factory- factories, fly- flies, diary-diaries
    但是,元音字母+y——直接+s toy——toys
    5.以 -f, -fe結尾的單詞,去掉f,-fe 再加 ves:
    knife-knives, wife-wives, life-lives, wolf-wolves,
    thief-thieves, leaf-leaves
    例外:roof-roofs屋頂, belief-beliefs信仰, gulf-gulfs海灣
    safe-safes, handkerchief-handker chiefs手帕
    6.特殊變化:
    man-men woman→woman
    child→children, tooth→teeth,
    goose→geese鵝 foot→feet,
    mouse→mice, looker-on→lookers-on 旁觀者
    passer-by→passers-by過路人,
    editor-in-chief→editors-in-chief總編輯,
    man-doctor→men doctors,
    woman-doctor→women doctors;
    fish, deer, Chinese, sheep單復數(shù)同形。