英语名词是英语学习绕无可绕的一个硬核知识点,那究竟什么是名词单复数,名词所有格?可数名词、不可数名词又有什么区别?
一文帮你厘清英语名词的所有语法点!
目录:
名词的复数不可数名词的复数定语名词的复数名词的格
1.名词的复数
1) 单数名词加s: students, apples, bags, trees, books, brothers.
2) 以s、x、sh、ch结尾的名词加es:glasses, boxes, brushes, matches.
3) 以辅音字母加y结尾的名词,变y为i加es:cities, babies, enemies.
4) 以f或fe结尾的名词,多数变f为v加es:wives, knives.但有些词只加s: roofs, proofs, chiefs.
5) 以o结尾的名词,有些加es:Negroes, heroes, tomatoes, potatoes.其它加s: radios, zoos, pianos, photos.
6) 不规则名词:foot→feet, goose→geese, tooth→teeth, child→children, man→men, woman→women, sheep→sheep, deer→deer, mouse→mice.
7) 某些外来词变复数:datum→data, medium→media, bacterium→bacteria, curriculum→curricula, criterion→criteria, phenomenon→phenomena. (um/on→a)analysis→analyses, basis→bases, crisis→crises, diagnosis→diagnoses. (is→es )
8) 复合名词变复数:以不可数名词结尾的复合名词无复数形式,如:homework.
以man或woman为前缀的复合名词变复数,前后两个名词都变复数,如:manservant→menservants, woman student women students.
其它复合名词变复数:grown-up→grown-ups, brother-in-law→brothers-in-law.