By Countable nouns, Consonants

Hi, I have one more question on No. 2, what would you do if the list contains a list of countable nouns with a mix of vowel initial sounds and consonant initial sounds and thus, engender a possible article consistency problem? Could I just put the article "a" in front of the word "planner" and...

Anonymous wrote: I am a Chinese and English is not my native language. A countable noun ends with "f" or "fe" when convering to plural ...... PLUS ves but drop f or fe Can anyone tell me why the plural for giraffe is giraffes and not change to ves. Is there any rules to define when to add...

Hi Lyn, Here is one of my posts from a previous thread on the topic of articles. It might help. Posted: 03-30-2005 12:26 PM The correct use of articles is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult points of English grammar, so don't be despondant Ali; mistakes don't usually matter too...

An excellent reply, Jazz. I hope you won't mind if I expand on it a little. The correct use of articles is acknowledged to be one of the most difficult points of English grammar, so don't be despondant Ali; mistakes don't usually matter too much, as you will still be understood. First, we don't...

we can divide nouns into two groups; 1- countable 2- uncountable we cant make plural uncountable nouns, e.g. water,milk etc.. when we look at countable we see there are four rules to make them plural; 1-s 2-es 3-ies 4-ves a countable noun ends with ;s,ss,sh,ch,x,o PLUS es: watch-watches a...