CUSTOMS OFFICER: Are you Swedish?
GIRLS: No, we are not.
We are Danish.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Are your friends Danish, too?
GIRLS: No, they aren't.
They are Norwegian.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Your passports, please.
GIRLS: Here they are.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Are these your cases?
GIRLS: No, they aren't.
GIRLS: Our cases are brown.
Here they are.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Are you tourists?
GIRLS: Yes, we are.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: Are your friends tourists too?
GIRLS: Yes, they are.
CUSTOMS OFFICER: That's fine.
GIRLS: Thank you very much.
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名詞的複數形式
英語中可數名詞有單數和複數兩種形式，指一個以上的事物時用複數形式。可數名詞的複數形式一般是在單數名詞後面加上-s，如課文中的friend-friends／frendz／，tourist-tourists／'tu+rists／，case-cases／'keisiz／。請注意-s的不同發音。如果名詞是以-s結尾的，變成複數時則要加-es，如dress-dresses／'dresizz/。
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