托托洛轻松语法－名词的复数形式（不规则变化）

可数名词复数不规则变化有以下情况：

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1. 集体名词
集体名词是个小群体，本身就是复数(不表示单个)，常见的有audience,people(人), cattle¹, police,sheep等, 然而people在表示“民族”的时候，却又不是集体名词，例如: China is a people of diligence. (中华民族是个勤劳的民族)。还有一些像the English，the French，the Chinese等表示“某国国民”的词，也是复数。
2. 一些特殊的词
children, feet, teeth, women, men, mice....这些词的单复数形式相差挺大，但因为他们特殊，多看几遍肯定就记住了，不会造成困扰的。

3. 合成名词的复数形式
  1) 没有连字符的合成名词，如supermarket, blackboard....将market, board....转化为复数supermarkets, blackboards即可。
  2) 如果构成合成词的两个都是名词，将后一个词转化为复数(shop-assistants, mail-boxes)；但如果一个是名词，另一个不是，则将名词转化为复数(常见的有standers-by, lookers-on)。
  3) 当第一个词是man或者woman时，两个都要变，见men servants, women teachers。

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一些练习：
1.All the ______ in the hospital went Skating last month.
a. women doctors b. women doctor c. woman doctors d. woman doctor
解答：参照合成名词的复数形式第三条。应该选women doctors。

2.Generally, there are ______ television programs for children on Sundays.
a. little b. much c. a large number of d. less than
解答：television programs是复数形式的合成词，选C。

3. ______ the first and largest group to work on the construction of the railroad².
a. Chinese were b. The Chinese was c. Chinese was d. The Chinese were
解答：按照句意可判断要选择的是“中国人”，the Chinese指的是全体人民，复数，选D。

4.A group of spectators³ was dispersed⁴ by the police who ______ at the scene of the accidents within minutes.
a. were b. have been c. was d. has been
解答：police是集体名词，表复数，选A。

5. There must be three __ in the room.
a. mice b.mouses c. mices d.mouse
解答：mouse(老鼠)的复数形式是mice，选A。

1 cattle   

n.牛，牲口，畜生

参考例句：

• He has twenty head of cattle on the farm.他在农场养了20头牛。
• On big farms cattle are usually stamped with brands.在大农场，牲畜通常是打烙印的。

2 railroad   

n.铁路；vi.由铁路运输

参考例句：

• The railroad connects two cities,namely,New York and Chicago.这条铁路连接两个城市，即纽约与芝加哥。
• My brother is working on the railroad.我兄弟在铁路系统工作。

3 spectators   

n.观众，旁观者( spectator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The spectators were wilting visibly in the hot sun. 看得出观众在炎热的阳光下快支撑不住了。
• The policemen asked the spectators to stand well back. 警察要求旁观者靠后站。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 dispersed   

adj. 被驱散的, 被分散的, 散布的

参考例句：

• The clouds dispersed themselves. 云散了。
• After school the children dispersed to their homes. 放学后，孩子们四散回家了。