The plural form of the word sunflower.
What is sunflowers?
The plural form of the word dish.
What is dishes?
The plural form of the word butterfly.
What is butterflies?
The plural form of the word shell.
What is shells?
The plural form of the word bud (the small growth on a plant before it blossoms).
What is buds?
We add -es instead of -s when a base word ends in these two letters, like in dish or wish.
When a base word ends in a consonant plus the letter "y", you must change the "y" to this letter before adding -es.
What is i?
The plural form of the word leaf.
The plural form of the word root.
What is roots?
The plural form of the word box.
What is boxes?
The plural form of the word baby.
What is babies?
When changing leaf to leaves, the letter f changes into this letter before adding the suffix.
What is v?
The plural form of the word colour.
The plural form of the word bunch.
What is bunches?
The plural form of the word berry.
What is berries?
How many total morphemes are in the word sunflowers?
What is 3? (sun+flower+s).
True or False: We add -s to nouns to show that there is only one of something.
What is False? (It means more than one).
Name three consonants or consonant blends that usually require an -es ending to become plural.
What are ch, sh, x, s, or z?
Why does the word day just become days (adding -s), but fly becomes flies(changing the you to i)?
What is because day has a vowel before the y, while fly has a consonant before the y?
Identify the base word and the suffix in the word colours.
What is colour (base) and -s (suffix)?