Monday, October 02, 2006

Learn English Language: Exercise 03

Exercise 03

Find in the dictionary the plurals of these words:


I. FROM THE LATIN.

  • apparatus
  • appendix
  • axis
  • datum
  • erratum
  • focus
  • formula
  • genus
  • larva
  • medium
  • memorandum
  • nebula
  • radius
  • series
  • species
  • stratum
  • terminus
  • vertex

II. FROM THE GREEK.

  • analysis
  • antithesis
  • automaton
  • basis
  • crisis
  • ellipsis
  • hypothesis
  • parenthesis
  • phenomenon
  • thesis

When the foreign words are fully naturalized, they form their plurals in the regular way; as,

  • bandits
  • cherubs
  • dogmas
  • encomiums
  • enigmas
  • focuses
  • formulas
  • geniuses
  • herbariums
  • indexes
  • seraphs
  • apexes

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