Student Instructions
1. Edit the text to make it a complete and clean sentence.
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Move the lazy cat to check your answer.
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If you missed mistakes on slide one, circle the rule(s) in the blue box that you should remember next time.
Your Goal: Learn to form the plurals of common nouns!
Teacher Notes (not visible to students)
See junewriters.com/teachers for other resources to help you teach plurals, common nouns, and other grammar, punctuation, and editing conventions. Writing conventions practiced in this assignment: To form plurals of common nouns: • Default —> add -s • Ends in a vowel + y —> add -s • Ends in a consonant + y —> remove the y and add -ies • Ends in a consonant + o —> add -es* • Ends in s, x, ch, sh, h, or z —> add -es* • Ends in f or fe —> remove the f/fe and add -ves* * Memorize words that defy the rules above