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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Pronunciation Rules: Changing the [y] to [ies].

Teaching students science terms at CSC 


2.18   Pronunciation Rules: Changing the [y] to [ies].

When a plural noun ends with y and it follows a consonant, we usually change the y to i before adding es to make it plural.

Exercise 1: Repeat each word aloud.
               

pony
ponies
family
families
baby
babies