Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Noun Forms

Details

Main Website:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

Activity Website:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm

Activity Description

After teaching regular and irregular noun plurals, students can use the Example Web Site link (above) for review and practice, by reading through and taking notes and then doing the practice quizzes.

Preparation

Make sure that the site is not blocked at your school.
Go through the information and the quizzes you plan to use in class, or have students use, in advance to look for explanations or quiz items you do not agree with.
If possible, provide students an easy way to get to the Web site by creating a Word document with an active hyperlink, posting the link on your class Web site or bookmarking the site on class computers.

How-To

Teach regular and irregular noun plurals.
Have students go to the Example link in a computer lab, review the material there, and then complete the quizzes at the bottom of the page.
As an alternative, in class use the quiz links for a whole-class review, asking for volunteers to provide the answers.
Another alternative would be to put students into teams and call on teams to give answers orally or to come to the computer to select or type in answers to the quiz questions.

There are three quizzes related to noun plurals - Plurals and Possessive Forms, Irregular Plurals and Noncount Nouns, Possessives and Irregular Plurals.

Teacher Tips

There are also sections on the topics below that you can use in class or provide to students as supplemental review.:

More Ways

The site has numerous pages of information and accompanying exercises on writing paragraphs, the writing process, sentence level writing, and the parts of speech, as well as essay writing. There are PowerPoints about various aspects of writing (clauses, punctuation, spelling, subject-verb agreement, for example) that can be downloaded.

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