Plurals

Read an extensive course syllabus that explains what each activity is, how to complete it and how it will help you improve your understanding of the regular plural form.

We set out the key objectives for this course so you can identify what you need to learn. We provide a downloadable checklist that you can print out to check off the points as you go through the course.

Before starting this course, you need to understand what the plural form is, how it's different to the singular form and when we need to use it. This is a presentation you can go through at your own pace as an introduction to the topic.

Start the grammar section of this course with a brief introduction and access to all the documents required for the video series. We explain how the video series works and you can download our interactive worksheet, which you can complete whilst watching our videos, alongside the answers and the slides used in our explanation videos.

Review the meaning of "plural" and visualise this using our singular and plural images.

Learn about the most classic plural ending for regular nouns in English. You'll see numerous example words with clear explanations.

Unfortunately, there are a few exceptions when creating the plural form in English and this video reviews one of these exceptions. We also provide an in-depth list of words ending in O, as they follow a very particular rule for forming the plural.

When forming the plural for words ending in Y, there are two different rules. We explain these rules in depth in this video with numerous example words to demonstrate this.

Words ending in F or FE also follow different rules when forming the plural and we review this in depth in this video.

Summarise all the plural rules you have learnt in our plurals grammar series in this final video. You can also download a summary table in PDF format too.

Take a look at some real-life examples of the regular plural form being used in articles by native English speakers.

Before starting the pronunciation section of this course, we provide you with all the correct materials. This includes the slides used in our pronunciation presentation with notes lines and an interactive worksheet, which you can answer whilst watching the videos. We provide the correct answers to this interactive worksheet too and point you to our pronunciation forum, where you can ask any questions about the correct pronunciation of regular plurals.

Start our regular plurals pronunciation video series with an introduction to the letter S and where this applies in other areas of English.

In order to fully understand how to correctly pronounce words ending in S, you need to understand all the sounds we have particularly, voiced and unvoiced sounds. In this video, we introduce the phonetic chart and the basics of English pronunciation to you and explain how this will help you correctly pronounce all words ending in S in English. You also have access to a downloadable PDF of the phonetic chart.

This video explains how to produce the sound /s/ and which words require this pronunciation. We provide numerous example words to demonstrate this pronunciation.

This video explains how to produce the sound /z/ and which words require this pronunciation. We provide numerous example words to demonstrate this pronunciation.

This video explains how to produce the sound /iz/ and which words require this pronunciation. We provide numerous example words to demonstrate this pronunciation.

This is a short booklet with numerous example words and sentences that you can read out loud. All of these sentences target the pronunciation of S. You can listen to audios of our native teachers reading these sentences correctly too, so you can read alongside the teacher or repeat once you’ve heard the audio.

You will learn from the grammar videos in this course that there are numerous rules to create the plural form. Here, you can review those rules using our very own flashcards.

Download our word and letter flashcards to practise converting words from their singular to plural form in a fun and interactive way. Answers are available too.

This is another set of flashcards that you can use to help you say plural forms out loud. As well as S pronunciation and plurals grammar, you'll get to review your vocabulary skills too.

This review page summarises everything learnt in this course. We present all the rules from this course with examples. You can easily download the PDF of this review page.

Take a look at some of our other published resources online to help you expand your knowledge of English.

After completing the course, you can review your achievements and analyse what you have learnt.

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