可数名词
一．单数变复数
1.
2.
①man-men, woman-women, tooth-teeth, foot-feet, child-children, goo-gee,
科技展览
mou-mice, ox-oxen
②sanatorium-sanatoria（疗养院）, phenomenon-phenomena, stratum-strata（地
层）, formula-formulae, thesis-thes, basis-bas, analysis-analys, criterion-criteria, crisis-cris, appendix-appendices
3. 单复数同形
慢热型
Chine, Japane, barracks（兵营）, aircraft, sheep, deer, swine, means, ries, species, works…
4. 合成名词
Lookers-on, runners-up, sons-in-law, editors-in-chief, grand-children, armymen, go-betweens, drawbacks, men rvants, women doctors
二．特别注意
1.有些名词形式上是复数但其意义是单数
疾病名称：measles（麻疹）, mumps(腮腺炎), rickets（佝偻病）, diabetes（糖尿病）, phlebitis（静脉炎）, arthritis（关节炎）…
学科名称：mathematics, linguistics, politics, economics, acoustics, phonetics, physics,
比赛名称：billiards（台球）, checkers（西洋跳棋）, fives（一种类似手球游戏）, darts（投镖游戏）, marbles,（打弹子游戏）skittles（九柱戏）, draughts （国际跳棋）…
专有名词: Athens（雅典）, Naples(那不勒斯), the United States, The United Nations…
2.由两个部分组成的物件名词常用复数
衣服：trours, pants, pajamas（睡衣）, braces(吊带、括号), breeches（马裤）…
用具：scissors, shears（剪切机）, pincers（钳子）, spectacles, tongs（夹子）, compass, scales, pliers（钳子）, glass, briefs（内裤）, shorts, 说明：这些名词作主语谓语动词用复数，但前面有a pair of 时用单数
3.以-ings结尾的名词
借用合同
Belongings, earnings, savings, filings（锉屑）, lodgings（出租的住房）, surroundings, sweepings（垃圾）, doings, tidings, findings, shavings（切屑）, 4.有些词通常一复数形式出现
Alms（施舍）, arms, archieves, clothes, contents, eaves（屋檐）, fireworks, goods, outskirts(郊区), minutes（会议记录）soapsuds（有泡沫的肥皂水）, stairs, suburbs（近郊）, the Middle Ages, wages（工资）, statistics, overalls（工作服）, remains（遗体）, congratulations, thanks, asts（资产、财产）, living-quarters （住宅）, riches（财产）, ashes, valuables, amends（赔款、赔偿）, annals（编年史、年报）, headquarters（总部、司令部）, tropics（热带）…
5.有些名词在一定的词组中一定要用复数形式
Take pains, prent credentials, make arrangements, make preparations, give regards to, be at odds with（和…不和）, sing the prais of, give respects to, master of ceremonies（司仪）, be in high spirits…
6.有些名词复数形式表示特别意思
Minutes, papers, goods, authorities, greens, looks, times, manners, customs, grounds（围院）, ruins, damages（赔偿金）, brains（智力）, imports, troops…三．名词单复数练习
1. 写出下列各名词的复数形式
Baby branch tax mou bush place inch cat roof tooth phenomenon goo dish lake prince ox mass butterfly handkerchief success holiday hou knife map shelf piano glass tomato hero month mouth bridge brother-in-law gentleman commander-in-chief grown-up woman worker basis analysis index nucleus-nuclei(核子) erratum-errata（写错）
2. 用名词的适当形式填空
⑴Before liberation he could hardly live on his ____________(wage).
⑵One has to be especialy careful under such ___________(circumstance).
⑶Our institute is in the western __________(suburb) of Beijing.
伪娘英文
⑷The school ___________(authority) will take care of it.
⑸The new ambassador prented his ___________( credential) to the President
关于爱的词语yesterday.
⑹The students are making _____________(preparation) for the coming festival.
⑺Have you made ___________(arrangement) for your trip to Qingdao?
⑻Most of the the hous in the village were burnt to __________(ash) during the
war.
⑼The truck was loaded with _____________(bedding), ___________(suitca) and
_______(food).
⑽When are yoy to report on your ___________(finding).
荧光原位杂交技术
⑾He is making a study of freshwater ___________(fish).
⑿There are more than a dozen ___________(goldfish) in the bowl.
⒀Now the people are eating more __________（fruit）than they did before liberation.
⒁Various ___________(fruit) are on sale now.
⒂Plea tell us about your ____________(experience) in Tibet.
⒃Everyone was in high ___________(spirit).
⒄The trees are now in full ___________(blossom).
⒅The tree was covered with __________(blossom).
⒆It contained a little quantity of __________(hair); not more than one or two long golden ___________(hair).
⒇They exchanged ___________(greeting) whenever they met each other.
(21)Today he is capable of making scientific __________(analysis) of natural
__________(phenomenon).
3. 将下列短语翻译成英语
一把剪刀
一条裤子
禁毒小诗简短
一副眼镜
他的所有物
他的积蓄
科学玩具他的作品
军备竞争
祝贺
住宅
城郊
贵重物品
武装部队
物理学
语言学
经济学
统计学
数学
杂技
政治学
当局
自然资源
情绪高昂
路费
观光
摆架子
随身物品
内部事务
有礼貌
出示证件
举行谈判
工作条件
外交关系
名词的性和所有格
男教师
女作家
男朋友
女朋友
男警察
女警察
男售货员
女售货员
男护士
女歌手
母象
公象
母猴
雄狼
母山羊
表姐妹
表兄弟
三．名词所有格
老李的电话号码
他嫂子的朋友
总编辑室
农民协会主席
今天的报纸
坐车半小时的路程
政府的政策
大多数人的意见
公司的董事之一
国家的计划
北京的公园
地球的表面
这个省的人口
这个岛的南端
这个农场的水果收成
车站的候车室
旅馆的门口
学校的历史
哈佛大学语言学系
工业的布局
这本书的名称
这个单词的语法作用
the car’s engine
the machine’s design
his life’s aim
the treaty’s ratification
