【明報專訊】Eason has a toothache and has gone to see a dentist. What's wrong with him?

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■English highway: -nouns and articles

Plural nouns

Most nouns are pluralised by adding an -s suffix, but there are many nouns with irregular plural forms, and they must be learned by heart. That said, patterns might be found in some of them. For example,

foot - feet

goose - geese

tooth - teeth

shelf - shelves

thief - thieves

wolf - wolves

■Quiz

Fill in the following blanks with the correct forms of the words provided. Each of them may be used only once. (answers on next text)

child / thief / football / leaf / book / egg / story / potato

1. I read two ________ about ________ last week.

2. The teacher told the ________ a few ________ in class.

3. A ________ stole ten ________ from the farm.

4. ________ come in many different shapes and sizes.

5. My favourite breakfast is one or two fried ________.

■Glossary

toothache (n) 牙痛

dentist (n) 牙醫

unbearable (adj) 難以忍受的

by heart (prep phr) 憑記憶