Irregular Plurals

Irregular Plurals

Read the following sentence from your text and notice the underlined word.

Victoria runs across to Able and sits on the floor at his feet.

The underlined word 'feet' is the plural form of the word 'foot'. This is an irregular

plural form. As you know the plural forms of nouns are usually formed by adding 's'. But there are some irregular ways of forming plurals.

a) Plurals of some Latin words. (eg: datum - data; medium - media)

b) Plurals of some Greek words. (eg: axis - axes; basis - bases)

Now write the plural forms of the following nouns given in the table and say whether each of them is 'Latin' or 'Greek' word.

Singular                    Noun Plural              Noun                          Latin              Geek

Crisis

Syllabus

Thesis

Fungus

Datum

Diagnosis

Phenomenon

Species

Erratum