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Irregular Plurals
Focus Grammar
Description Practise the most important irregular plurals until you master them all.
Instructions 1- Look at the words and think of its singular/plural form 2- Move your mouse over the black button to check your answer. 3- If you were right click on the green button, if wrong, click on the red.
 
Item Match Comments
penny pence In the UK a pound has 100 pence, though very often people simply say "p": 1p /pi:/ 2p /pi:/
In America "penny" is a colloquial word for "cent", and the plural is "pennies".
loaf loaves A shaped mass of bread baked in one piece. A loaf is the complete thing made of bread, and when you eat, you break it into pieces of bread. So you usually buy, for example, two loaves, or two loaves of bread, you never buy a piece of bread.
child children
half halves BrE - /hɑ:f/  /hɑ:vz/
AmE - /hæf/  /hævz/
wolf wolves /wʊlf/  /wʊlvz/
shelf shelves a thin flat plank of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally against a wall, etc., for the purpose of supporting objects
man men
this these /ðɪs/  /ði:z/
 
leaf leaves
woman women /wʊmən/  /wɪmɪn/
 
fish fish
person people Some speakers of other languages (especially Spanish") often use "people" in the singular:
In Mexico people is very nice
This is wrong, since "people" is an irregular plural and it should be:
In Mexico people are very nice

Now, the word "people" can also mean "nation", and in that case it is a regular word: people - peoples
Moses said to the Pharaoh: Let my people go!
His majesty, the people is tired of this war.
Today is a great day for all the peoples in the world
tooth teeth /tu:θ/  /ti:θ/
scarf scarves
wife wives
life lives
mouse mice
foot feet
sheep sheep
goose geese
knife knives
that those /ðæt/  /ðəʊz/
 
Total number of items: 22
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