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LFTH RULE 12eme REGLE FONDAMENTALE
VOCABULAIRE
-There was a Fire Sale in Villers sur mer this week-end. At 7 in the morning,
the first ‘shopkeepers’ started to arrive. Once they had found their room, they
could empty their boxes full of all kind of second-hand things from shoes,
clothes, watches to furniture. Some of them had trays, some others were using
trolleys to help them carrying them from one place to another while others
were going up and down from their vehicle to their stand. Around 12, we
started to see and smell smoke coming from stands where food-sellers were
stationed. Here we could buy sausages, chips and other hot dishes cooked by
travelling salesmen while the locals were selling homemade strawberry-tarts,
apple, prune, rhubarb and even cherry cakes.
QUESTION ABOUT THE TEXT
What happened in Villers sur mer this week-end?
.
GRAMMAIRE
Le s du pluriel des noms se prononce toujours (comme celui de la 3eme
personne du singulier des verbes).
The wall, the roof the walls, the roofs
The box, the dress, the watch the boxes, the dresses, the watches
On ne prononce le e de la terminaison es que lorsque c’est indispensable pour
faire entendre le radical et le s.
The bridge, the judge the bridges, the judges
Mais sans prononcer le e:the stones (pluriel de: stone), the clothes (pas de singulier)
Pour le pluriel des noms terminés par un y (voir règle fondamentale 1)
The cherry the cherries The fly the flies
The tray the trays
Principaux pluriels irréguliers:
Les noms en ‘ife’ ou lf’ se transforme en ives au pluriel.
Ex :Couteau : Knife=knives/ femme :wife= wives
Les noms en ‘elf se transforme en ‘elves’au pluriel Ex:Etagère=Shelf= shelves
Les noms en ief se transforme en ‘ieves’
Ex :voleur : thief=thieves
Les noms en ‘eaf’se transforme en ‘eaves’ Ex:feuille : leaf= leaves
Les noms se termiant en ‘o se transforme en ‘oes’
Ex :tomate= tomatoes/ hero= heroes/ potato=potatoes
Quant au ‘oo’ attention, plusieurs règles peuvent s’appliquer en fonction des
noms
Ex :dent : tooth= teeth/ pied:foot :feet oie:goose=geesemais cook=cooks
Quelques cas isolés:
Ex:Homme:man=men femme:woman=women Enfant:child=children
Ex:Boeuf:ox=oxen/ souris:mouse=mice
People (les gens) est un pluriel (au singulier: a person, a man…)Hair (les
cheveux) luggage (les bagages) et furniture (les meubles) sont des
singuliers.
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VOCABULAIRE
-There was a Fire Sale in Villers sur mer this week-end. At 7 in the morning,
the first ‘shopkeepers’ started to arrive. Once they had found their room, they
could empty their boxes full of all kind of second-hand things from shoes,
clothes, watches to furniture. Some of them had trays, some others were using
trolleys to help them carrying them from one place to another while others
were going up and down from their vehicle to their stand. Around 12, we
started to see and smell smoke coming from stands where food-sellers were
stationed. Here we could buy sausages, chips and other hot dishes cooked by
travelling salesmen while the locals were selling homemade strawberry-tarts,
apple, prune, rhubarb and even cherry cakes.
QUESTION ABOUT THE TEXT
What happened in Villers sur mer this week-end?
.
GRAMMAIRE
Le s du pluriel des noms se prononce toujours (comme celui de la 3eme
personne du singulier des verbes).
The wall, the roof the walls, the roofs
The box, the dress, the watch the boxes, the dresses, the watches
On ne prononce le e de la terminaison es que lorsque c’est indispensable pour
faire entendre le radical et le s.
The bridge, the judge the bridges, the judges
Mais sans prononcer le e:the stones (pluriel de: stone), the clothes (pas de singulier)
Pour le pluriel des noms terminés par un y (voir règle fondamentale 1)
The cherry the cherries The fly the flies
The tray the trays
Principaux pluriels irréguliers:
Les noms en ‘ife’ ou lf’ se transforme en ives au pluriel.
Ex :Couteau : Knife=knives/ femme :wife= wives
Les noms en ‘elf se transforme en ‘elves’au pluriel Ex:Etagère=Shelf= shelves
Les noms en ief se transforme en ‘ieves’
Ex :voleur : thief=thieves
Les noms en ‘eaf’se transforme en ‘eaves’ Ex:feuille : leaf= leaves
Les noms se termiant en ‘o se transforme en ‘oes’
Ex :tomate= tomatoes/ hero= heroes/ potato=potatoes
Quant au ‘oo’ attention, plusieurs règles peuvent s’appliquer en fonction des
noms
Ex :dent : tooth= teeth/ pied:foot :feet oie:goose=geesemais cook=cooks
Quelques cas isolés:
Ex:Homme:man=men femme:woman=women Enfant:child=children
Ex:Boeuf:ox=oxen/ souris:mouse=mice
People (les gens) est un pluriel (au singulier: a person, a man…)Hair (les
cheveux) luggage (les bagages) et furniture (les meubles) sont des
singuliers.
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