Snookie is an English language learner. When reading the sentence“We brought three chairs to the beach,”she pronounces chairs aschair. Which of the following responses by her teacher would be most appropriate?
  1. Give Snookie a list of singular nouns with their plural counterparts.
  2. Line up three chairs and show her the visual difference between three chairs and one chair to make sure she understands that chairs means more than one chair.
  3. Give Snookie a piece of paper with singular nouns listed on it and ask her to add an s to the end of each word.
  4. Assume it was just a mistake and ignore it so she is not embarrassed.
Explanation
Answer: B - The most appropriate reaction by Snookie’s teacher when she pronounces the singular form of chair instead of the plural form is to line up three chairs and show her the visual difference between three chairs and one chair to make sure she understands that chairs means more than one chair. Simply looking at a list of plural and singular nouns or adding an s to them is not an effective way of teaching her that an s at the end means more than one.
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