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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