English · Astronomy and the Solar System

Word formation — plural noun formation (regular & irregular) & pronunciation of final -s/-es

From telescopes to phenomena: spelling and sound rules for plural nouns

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6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Forming plural nouns (regular & irregular)
  • Pronunciation of final -s/-es

The common mistakes

  • Irregular plural formed with regular -s rule

From the lesson

Read a page from an astronomer's notebook. Some nouns in it name one thing. Others name more than one.

The vocabulary

  • phenomenon/phenomena (ظاهرة/ظواهر)

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