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Guide to Grammar and Writing: Plural Noun Forms
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Activity Description
Students can use the Example Web Site link (above) for learning about, or review and practice of regular and irregular noun plurals, by reading through and taking notes and then doing the practice quizzes. But there is more. This site also covers all aspects of Grammar and Writing skills at the word, sentence, paragraph, and essay levels, so if a student needs more practice on any one of these things there is a lot of material here for self study with practice exercises and 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 (or one of the other topics).
- Have students go to the Web Site Example using a computer, 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 small-class review, asking for volunteers to provide the answers.
There are three quizzes related to noun plurals - Plurals and Possessive Forms, Irregular Plurals and Non-count Nouns, Possessives and Irregular Plurals.
Teacher Tips
There are also sections on other noun topics below, that you can use in class or provide to students as supplemental review.:
- Nouns in general
- An exercise in recognizing nouns
- Count versus non-count nouns
- An exercise in categorizing count- and non-count nouns
- Possessive forms of nouns
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.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
Levels
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- All Levels