ABSTRACT

It recommends that learners should “investigate, collect and classify spelling patterns in pluralisation, construct rules for regular spellings, e.g. add ‘s’ to most words; add ‘es’ to most words ending in ‘s’, ‘sh’, ‘ch’; change ‘f’ to ‘ves’; when ‘y’ is a final consonant change to ‘ies’.” These are included in Chapter 3, How to Manage Plurals Painlessly.