Need help with Daughters 2nd grade English

[heliogunner]

I can't believe I am asking for help with my daughters 2nd grade English. She's learning the different ways to use plurals which I do understand. Such as adding s or es or drop the y and add ies. When I came to the last one it stumped me. I need four examples of a plural that is a whole new word.

[LEOGER]

here are a couple
mouse mice
di dice
goose geese

[Kamd50]

man - men
foot - feet
tooth -teeth

Some websites that might come in handy for you, helio:

http://www.virted.org/grammar/nouncount.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/plurals.htm

[Al.]

There are several nouns that have irregular plural forms. Plurals formed in this way are sometimes called mutated (or mutating) plurals.

more than one child = children
more than one woman = women
more than one person = people
more than one barracks = barracks
more than one deer = deer

There are nouns that maintain their Latin or Greek form in the plural.

more than one nucleus = nuclei
more than one syllabus = syllabi
more than one focus = foci
more than one fungus = fungi
more than one cactus = cacti (cactuses is acceptable)
more than one thesis = theses
more than one crisis = crises
more than one phenomenon = phenomena
more than one index = indices (indexes is acceptable)
more than one appendix = appendices (appendixes is acceptable)
more than one criterion = criteria

Plurals of words that end in f or fe usually change the f sound to a v sound and add s or es.

more than one knife = knives
more than one leaf = leaves
more than one hoof = hooves
more than one life = lives
more than one self = selves
more than one elf = elves

[Dr Strangemind]

kudos - kudos

[lobbs75]

I can't believe I am asking for help with my daughters 2nd grade English. She's learning the different ways to use plurals which I do understand. Such as adding s or es or drop the y and add ies. When I came to the last one it stumped me. I need four examples of a plural that is a whole new word.

Slip da teacher a $50, 60% of the time, it works all the time!:2thumbsup:

[heliogunner]

Thanks everyone who replied to my homework question. English was not one of my favorite subjects in school. Thanks again.

[shortbev]

i have my own private tutoring service...charge $22 per hour...available most evenings for homework help....can do over the internet...or give me a call on my cell (pm me for the number) do it all the time for my granddaughter...son calls "mom, help, algebra"...if i ever run across the little SOB who came up with algebra...i am going to pound the poop out of him...if i get to heaven and he's there...i am kicking him out for all the "you know what" he has caused so many of us over these many, many years...:laugh:


and i guess, helio, you aren't smarter than a 2nd grader let alone a 5th:poke:

[Mtowntiger18]

$22 an hr? Is that a joke? I tutor Calculus for college students in Minnesota and I only charge $15 and thats pretty standard up here. Is that a normal amount in the Stark county area?

[shortbev]

over 10 years ago, i made nearly $18 per hour as an inhome instructor for the local public schools (i had the privilege of working with kids whose next stop was the corrections facility in bowling green)...recently talked to a music teacher who charges $15 per half hour...Sylvan Center (and some of the other chains) charges close to $50 per hour and that is a small group situation rather than a 1-1 like i do...i have had experience in many different teaching settings...subbing, tutoring for the schools, adult education, community colleges, literacy teacher at a prison...i chose to do this rather than being in the regular classroom...felt there was a real need for some kids to get additional help outside of the structure of the system...i have my teaching degree...plus special training in a multisensory reading / math program for students with dyslexia...(if i worked at the place where i trained in cincinnati, one would be paying $50 per hour, 4 hours per day, five days per week...very intensive...sometimes, for several months...) take all that into consideration...i would say that i am on the cheap side...i just gave myself the $2 raise in january...first one since 2000...

the hours when i tutor algebra, i think i really should charge double...for the headache of trying to explain this stuff to some poor kid


question one would need to ask oneself...is my child's education a priority??? or are other things more important(fill in the blank)...maybe that is the problem within our society...we feel they need x-boxes, cell phones, tvs in their rooms, ______________ vs equipping them with the skills to be successful adults...it is totally unbelievable the number of kids who can't make change or do fairly simple math without a calculator...watching jay leno makes it very apparent that many need to study current events and history just a bit...

and from some of the postings on here, there are some who seriously need to work on their English writing skills...

[heliogunner]

and i guess, helio, you aren't smarter than a 2nd grader let alone a 5th:poke:[/QUOTE]

Hey sometimes we have brain farts and forget simple the things that we were taught in school. I consider myself a fairly smart person considering I am a helicopter mechanic and crewchief in the Army National Guard.

[shooter]

Here is one I'm stumped by: If 2x + 4x -8x=96, what does x equal? These long winter nights in rural Indiana get pretty lonely, even if I am drinking microbrew.

[austinsm11]

-48

[ChronicTiger]

Here is one I'm stumped by: If 2x + 4x -8x=96, what does x equal? These long winter nights in rural Indiana get pretty lonely, even if I am drinking microbrew.

if that has you stumped you must really be throwing them back.......

[shortbev]

helio, you get them brain farts too...me too...i admit it to my students all the time...problem with some people in life is they get them all the time, just don't have a clue that they did.

was just poking a little fun at ya...sometimes, i am not to sure if the true sentiment comes across in the typing...

[ChronicTiger]

LOL.....I get it now...........

:tonguewave:

[heliogunner]

helio, you get them brain farts too...me too...i admit it to my students all the time...problem with some people in life is they get them all the time, just don't have a clue that they did.

was just poking a little fun at ya...sometimes, i am not to sure if the true sentiment comes across in the typing...


Thats OK shortbev, I was having a bad day when I read your post and took it the wrong way.