In new zealand and australia rooves is definitely the more common usage.
Plural noun of roofs.
Roofs is the standard plural form of the noun roof which is a covering over a building.
Up up and up the falcon flaps beyond the rooves the riven sky while windblown cans chime out below a death knell.
Rooves is an older form of the word and rarely used these days although it is still used in australia it should be noted that in new zealand the plural.
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Are you good at plurals.
The noun roof adheres to the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in english shown in the table below.
Roofs is a verb while rooves is a plural noun.
Come back when you learn the difference.
6 if the singular noun ends in y and the letter before the y is a vowel simply add an s to make it.
The plural of roof is roofs or rooves.
Singular plural 1 thief thieves 2 life lives 3 wife wives 4 loaf loaves 5 half halves 6 sheaf sheaves 7 calf calves 8 knife knives 9 wo.
Roof definition the external upper covering of a house or other building.
The primary job of most roofs is to keep out water.
Here s a quick test.
5 if a singular noun ends in y and the letter before the y is a consonant change the ending to ies to make the noun plural.
Roofs constructed of flat sloped sections are referred to as pitched roofs.
Throughout history roofs have been constructed of thatch clay palm leaves wood and many other building materials.
The rooves are made of temperate hardwood which is widely believed to be more environmentally friendly than tropical hardwood.
The plural of roof the plural of roof is roofs.
To make the nouns ending in f or fe into plural change f or fe into v and add es to their singular.
How to use roof in a sentence.