LINGO BELLO 

Nouns 
definite article - the 
the house        the  dog       the car  

indefinite article  -  a/an 

a house    a dog   a car 

an - vowel sound                

an apple   an orange   an elephant  an umbrella  
an honest man

a - no vowel sound
a union   a university

Nouns with capital (big) letters
People’s Names: 
John Smith

First person:
He lives in Paris and I live in Berlin

The first word of every sentence:
Walking is good for your health

Names of places, countries, cities etc:
e.g. Germany, Paris, the Eiffel Tower, Main Street. 

Nationalities and Languages:
e.g. a French man, an African restaurant, the Chinese 
                                                                      language.


Titles of books/films/events etc.
e.g. The Wizard of Oz, Summer Park Festival. 


Days of the week and months of the year:
e.g. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. 
       January, February, March


Noun Plurals
Most plural nouns take an “s”. 
e.g. table-tables, chair- chairs, school - schools.  

Nouns ending in “sh”, “ch”, “x”, “z”, “s” take an “es”
e.g. brush-brushes, beach- beaches, 
fox-foxes, quiz- quizes,  bus -buses. 

Most nouns ending in “o” take an “es” 
e.g. potato - potatoes, but there are exceptions 
E.g. photo- photos. 

Nouns ending in a consonant and “y” 
take an “ies” in the plural and the “y” is dropped.
e.g.  country - countries, battery-batteries

Nouns ending with a vowel and y take an “s”
e.g. Journey- journeys, monkey-monkeys

Nouns that end in “f” or “fe” take “ves” in plural 
and the “f” or “fe” is dropped. 
e.g. leaf - leaves, wife - wives.


Irregular Forms
man - men 
woman-women
child - children 
person - people (“persons” also exists)
fish - fish (you say “fishes” when talking about 
                 different kinds of fish) 
sheep - sheep 
mouse - mice