Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Six, Lesson Five: Unit Review

  1. bringing
  2. sitting
  3. writing
  4. running
  5. biting
  6. stinging
  7. biking
  8. national
  9. recreation
  10. hiking
  1. grade
  2. steep
  3. atom
  4. proton
  5. neutron
  6. electron
  7. nucleus
  8. charge
  9. positive
  10. negative
Letter Patterns

This unit contains several words with the -ing letter pattern. Most often you find this pattern at the end of words. Here are the words from this list which contain the -ing letter pattern. 


	bringing		sitting		writing

	running			biting		stinging

	biking			hiking
Three words from the list all end with -on: 

	neutron		proton		electron
All these words name parts of an atom.

Irregular Plurals

Recall that there are three basic rules for pluralizing nouns: 

                                                                                
        1. DROP THE Y AND ADD -IES
            Use on words which end with Y like: city/cities, fly/flies
            But not on words like: boy/boys, bay/bays
                                                                                
        2. ADD -ES
            Use on words which end with ss, ch, x, or sh: peach/peaches
                                                                                
        3. JUST ADD -S
            Use on most words like: dog/dogs, cat/cats, chair/chairs
HOWEVER, some nouns just don't like to follow the rules. These words are irregular in the way they get pluralized. Here are a few examples: 

	SINGULAR NOUN			PLURAL NOUN
	  mouse				  mice
	  goose				  geese
	  foot				  feet
	  tooth				  teeth
	  louse				  lice
	  deer				  deer
	  sheep				  sheep
	  man				  men

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