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Count/Noncount Nouns and Irregular Plurals


Objective: to review count and noncount nouns and irregular plural forms

Time: 25 minutes

Directions:  Print this page.   Copy the words below on to colored paper or cardstock.  Cut up the words.   Each group receives one "deck" of cards.  Students take turns choosing words.  The student must make a sentence using the word in a plural form; if the word is non-count, the student should use a quantifier to make a sentence.  If the student answers correctly, he/she keeps the card.  At the end, award a small prize to the student with the most cards.

Coffee   Deer Cactus
Fog    Species Wife
Truth Iron Luck
Advice Soccer Cards
Violence   Octopus      Woman
Knife    Thesis Millennium     
Tooth    Appendix Child
Mouse      Crisis    Life
Criterion     Dwarf    Radius
Goose Person Analysis
Cancer  Beef Gold
Sand Smoke Medicine
Oil Writing Sugar
Rice  Thunder  Lightning
Rain  Dust Biology
Time Literature Clothing
News Entertainment Furniture

 

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